Lake spending remains on hold while impact of income tax is measured

CROWN POINT | Lake County Council members remained cautious about future spending requests Tuesday despite last week's passage of the local option income tax that promises tens of million of dollars in new revenues.

Lake County Council passes income tax

CROWN POINT | The Lake County Council passed a county income tax Monday.

Lake E-911 officials plan summit meeting

CROWN POINT | Lake County elected officials and public safety leaders are scheduled to meet Thursday to iron out policy differences arising from the consolidation of the county's E-911 networks.

Lake County Board of Commissioners

Lake County Board of Commissioners will meet May 1, 2013.

EDITORIAL: Lake's income tax debate begins

Tuesday's 4-3 preliminary vote on an income tax for Lake County should not be seen as an opening salvo against the county's taxpayers. Rather, it's a step toward coming to grips with reality.

GUEST COMMENTARY: County option income tax is unconstitutional

Indiana state legislators enacted a law giving all 92 counties the opportunity to pass a county option income tax. In 91 counties, the county council and commissioners voluntarily chose to enact such a tax. Only in Lake County did the county commissioners veto the tax. I voted to defeat the …

Lake County commissioners tap union official for RDA seat

CROWN POINT | The Lake County Board of Commissioners wants local union leader Randy Palmateer to be the county's representative on the Northwest Indiana Regional Development Authority.

Gary council formalizes support for county income tax

GARY │ The Gary City Council passed a resolution Tuesday in support of a local option income tax in Lake County.

Lake's E-911 director hangs up on consolidation process

CROWN POINT | Lake County's E-911 director resigned in dramatic fashion Thursday morning, leaving some to feel the consolidation of emergency communications is suffering its own emergency.

EDITORIAL: Stop gun shows at Lake County fairgrounds

Last week's law enforcement summit in Gary should serve as notice that Indiana, particularly Lake County, is contributing to Chicago's crime problem.

Lake officials looking for new advisers to speed-dial E-911 merger

CROWN POINT | Some chief advisers to Lake officials may be on the way out in an attempt to inject new life into the county's efforts to merge its multiple E-911 dispatch centers.

County on board for Columbia Ave. bridge project

MUNSTER | Lake County commissioners signed an agreement Wednesday to bear half the cost of reconstructing the Columbia Avenue bridge over the Little Calumet River.

Child support court moving to C.P. from Gary

CROWN POINT | The Lake Juvenile Court judge is moving her Gary-based child support court to Crown Point next week and reigniting a debate about the benefits of consolidating local government versus the cost of removing government facilities from the county's urban core.

Region legislators seek tighter leash on Lake County solid waste district

INDIANAPOLIS | Two former Lake County solid waste officials are using their newly acquired legislative pulpit to pursue reforms of their former waste management district board.

Lowell to merge E-911 communications with county

The town of Lowell will merge its emergency communications system with the Lake County sheriff's in six weeks, but consolidation for other town and city police and fire departments remains on hold while debate continues over the cheapest and best designed electronic infrastructure.

Lake County Board of Commissioners

Lake County Board of Commissioners 2013 meeting schedule.

Lake budget time is reminder of tax reforms

CROWN POINT | Local government's financial affairs aren't on the rocks yet, but Lake County's elected officials can hear the roar of the breakers -- the circuit breakers.

Lake County Council and Lake County Board of Commissioners

Lake County Council and Lake County Board of Commissioners will meet July 10.

3rd District recount finds suspicious ballots

CROWN POINT | Officials conducting the 3rd District Lake County Commissioner recount already have found apparent voting irregularities in the first day of the new tally.