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 […]

Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels is going to testify before lawmakers at the House Ways and Means Committee this morning about his property tax reform plan.  Daniels is expected to reinforce a number of themes laid out in his state of the state address.  He’ll talk about working for the people, not special interests. He’ll talk about […]

As expected, reaction to the Governor’s State of the State depended on your political persuasion… House Speaker Pat Bauer – “Now that the governor and his Republican colleagues in the Indiana House have seen the error of their ways and decided that they need to cut property taxes rather than increase them, the 2008 session […]

Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels delivered his fourth, and what could be his final, State of the State address tonight. In the nearly half-hour long address, the Governor reiterated his property tax reform plan to lawmakers and told them not to make any plans for Spring Break if the job wasn’t done. Daniels said he wanted […]

Don’t expect Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels to stray too much from the subject of property taxes when he gives his state of the state address on Tuesday. Lt. Governor Becky Skillman says the speech has been written since Thanksgiving and will likely be the shortest of his four State of the State speeches. Skillman also told […]

Governor Mitch Daniels is going under the knife today. He’s having outpatient surgery to remove an abdominal hernia. He’ll be back to work on Tuesday. I jokingly say the Governor probably got the hernia by trying to carry this state into the 21st Century. Hopefully when he’s back he can continue to take the scalpel […]