Indiana Legislative Insight

Relief or reform?

Governor’s property tax relief plan gutted by Senate GOP Last week we told you that the legislative perception of the Governor’s property tax relief proposal was that it “needs fixed,” in the Hoosier vernacular. After having their ears bent [...]

2025-02-21T14:41:11-05:00February 21st, 2025|Indiana Legislative Insight|

Tax relief dynamics

Lots of multi-level sub rosa drama over property tax cut issues Even as lawmakers work to (conditionally) extend individual income tax cuts through additional years, the big tax issue on the agenda is property tax relief. The state has [...]

2025-02-14T11:02:50-05:00February 14th, 2025|Indiana Legislative Insight|

Banks manifesto; part deux

Senator-elect builds on 2021 memo with new working class plan U.S. Sen.-elect Jim Banks (R) releases a two-page “Policy Vision for the 119th Congress” that he titles “Working Families First.” The memo not only outlines his objectives to Hoosier [...]

2025-01-06T10:53:10-05:00January 6th, 2025|Indiana Legislative Insight|

Translating the transition

Team Braun details priorities, policy proposals, implementation Governor-elect Mike Braun (R) sheds some additional light on his administrative and policy priorities this week, eager to put wins on the board as quickly as possible out of the gates, even [...]

2024-12-13T11:32:53-05:00December 13th, 2024|Indiana Legislative Insight|

Red tide swamps IN women

Harris, McCormick, McCray, Wells all lose; supermajority intact Two years ago analysts puzzled over why Hoosiers – particularly women – didn’t rebel against the Republican legislative supermajority just two months removed from passage of a strict abortion ban . [...]

2024-11-15T11:18:26-05:00November 15th, 2024|Indiana Legislative Insight|

The state of the state race

Demos seek leverage, cash from events, polling Democrats are beginning to feel optimistic about their chances in the gubernatorial race this fall, a prospect that would have been unthinkable back in early May . . . but we are [...]

2024-10-11T09:45:46-05:00October 11th, 2024|Indiana Legislative Insight|

Holcomb’s 6th appellate judge

Republican CoA jurists now double Democrat-appointed judges Governor Eric Holcomb (R) appoints Judge Mary A. DeBoer of the Porter County Circuit Court No. 1 to the Indiana Court of Appeals. The Valparaiso resident will succeed retired judge Patricia A. [...]

2024-09-27T09:26:26-05:00September 27th, 2024|Indiana Legislative Insight|
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