State board gains new powers to help financially distressed schools, governments

INDIANAPOLIS | The state board that let Gary exceed Indiana's property tax caps for three years to help straighten out the city's finances has a new mission.

Study rates Indiana fifth best state for business

INDIANAPOLIS | The decision by Republican state lawmakers to enact a right-to-work law earlier this year has improved perceptions of Indiana's business climate.

Shuttered Hammond library buildings up for sale

HAMMOND | A pair of buildings that once housed Hammond Public Library branches have been put up for sale by library trustees.

Skillman suggests route around tax caps for local governments

INDIANAPOLIS | Counties, cities and towns could seek permission to bust the state's property tax caps under a local government reform plan proposed Tuesday by Lt. Gov. Becky Skillman.

Hammond library branches to close Nov. 1

HAMMOND | In what board members and patrons called "a heartbreaking decision," the Hammond Public Library Board of trustees voted unanimously Tuesday to close the city's two remaining library branches Nov. 1.

Repeal tax caps, speaker says

GARY | In 1991, St. John resident Joseph Gomeztagle fought and won a change in the way Indiana assesses property. On Monday, as executive director of the Midwest Business and Economic Research Group, he sounded a rallying cry to end the state's 1–2–3 property tax formula and change the India…

Gary granted final tax caps exemption

INDIANAPOLIS | Gary property owners will continue paying the highest tax rates in the state -- but for only one more year.

PDF: DUAB resolution

This resolution authorizes the city of Gary and three other Gary taxing units to exceed the state property tax caps in order to reach the levies listed in the resolution.

Board to rule on Gary tax help plea

INDIANAPOLIS | Four Gary taxing districts will learn April 13 whether they will be permitted to charge rates in excess of the state's property tax caps for a third straight year.

State panel will consider Gary property tax request Jan. 7

INDIANAPOLIS | Gary will make its third annual plea for an exemption from the state's property tax caps on Jan. 7.

Property tax caps will be the topic at Crossroads Chamber meeting

HOBART | The Crossroads Regional Chamber of Commerce will host its monthly networking meeting for members and invited guests Tuesday at Avalon Manor, 3550 E. U.S. 30.