Watch out for this one folks, home prices are dropping across the country. Indianapolis won’t be immune to this syndrome either. And remember, the property tax system here is based on fair market value. As home values drop, there is less assessed value. If there is less assessed value that should translate into less money […]

I have some work to do this morning so I’m taking off from the show.   My fill-in host will be Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard.  See you tomorrow.

Marion County Coroner Ken Ackles with have to go without pay for a while. The City-County Council voted tonight to suspend his pay until he passes his state certification test, as mandated by state law. Ackles did not appear before the Council, which irritated a number of members on both sides of the aisle. The […]

Some folks in this town are trying to make a little political hay about the solicitation arrest of Olgen M. Williams, the 28-year old son of Deputy Mayor Olgen Williams.   The younger Williams was arrested the day before Mayor Greg Ballard announced the “Peace in the Streets” campaign at the Christamore House where the older Williams […]

It’s Easter Sunday so a lot of you are out going to church and spending time with your families, so we’ll keep this morning’s entries rather brief. Wouldn’t It Be Hillary In Presidential politics there is a very interesting piece worth reading in Politico. It basically says with Florida and Michigan re-votes out of the […]

The Capital Improvement Board has formally addressed a controversial deal that would have given the proceeds of taxpayer-purchased property to a local not-for-profit organization. That decision resulted in a lawsuit. The Board voted unanimously this afternoon to pay the Indiana Sports Corporation $200,000 to auction off public property from the RCA Dome. Under the agreement […]

Hilary Clinton is in Indiana today.  She’s making stops in Evansville, Terre Haute and Anderson.  Her visit here today and Barack Obama’s on Saturday got me to thinking, which would America elect first a Black President or a woman President? I think a Black would get elected first. History is my best indicator for making […]

Governor Mitch Daniels today signed a bill that he says will give Hoosiers permanent property tax relief.  Daniels, along with House Speaker Pat Bauer, Senate Pro Temp David Long and Lt. Governor Becky Skillman, signed House Bill 1001 which would cut property taxes by an average of 30 percent across the state. Property taxes were […]

The controversy over the auction of RCA Dome items just got a “little” bigger.  Paul Ogden, the attorney who filed the suit to keep the proceeds from the auction in the hands of the taxpayers, told me this morning there is an issue of whether the Capital Improvement Board even took a formal vote to dispose of […]

The Governor and legislative leaders will hold a joint news conference this afternoon over property tax reform.  The Governor will sign HB 1001.    The bill does a lot but it does not directly affect the assessment process, except to the extent it eliminates township assessors in townships with less than 15,000 parcels and calls for […]