PIKE TOWNSHIP BOARD PRESIDENT SENDS THREE DEMANDS IN 66 MINUTES
Pike Township Board President Demetrice Hicks sent three separate demands to township officials over roughly an hour Sunday night, escalating a monthslong dispute between the …
Realtors push back as Indiana’s foreclosure ranking draws scrutiny
Indiana has ranked among the states with the highest foreclosure rates in the country this year, but the state’s real estate industry says the headline …
Fourteen Names and a Ballot Nobody Can Find
by Abdul-Hakim Shabazz, Esq. IndyPolitics obtained Paula Copenhaver’s latest pleadings Friday night — filed at 11:30 p.m. Fifty-seven pages of reply brief, a motion to …
Debate Over Road Funding Centers on Use of Income Tax Growth
A simmering dispute over how to fund Indianapolis’ road improvements is intensifying, with Mayor Joe Hogsett’s administration and members of the City-County Council split over …
The $60,000 Question
Republican secretary of state nominee Max Engling’s campaign says it returned a $60,000 contribution from a dark money group on July 14, after an internal …
Indiana Supreme Court To Decide Whether Groups Can Go To Court For Their Members
The Indiana Supreme Court will hear arguments September 17 on a question with a dry name and a wide reach: whether an organization can sue …
A Grown-Up Immigration Plan (Which Is Why It Will Never Pass)
by Abdul-Hakim Shabazz, Esq. The last time Washington did something about immigration, Ronald Reagan was president, “Top Gun” was in theaters, and I was a …
DLGF Confirms General Counsel Post Is Vacant as Property-Tax Law Takes Effect; OMB Attorneys Providing Interim Review
A week after Indy Politics reported that the Indiana Department of Local Government Finance was operating without in-house counsel as a major property-tax law took …
Indiana’s Surplus Spurs Debate Over Taxes, Local Finances, and Roads
Indiana closed its most recent fiscal year with a sizable surplus and near-record reserves, prompting renewed debate over how the state should use its strong …
Indiana Wins Small, Loses Big in Trump Mail-Voting Case
A Boston judge keeps the challenge to Executive Order 14399 alive, but trims it in ways that help the Indiana-led states. Indiana and 11 other …