After a year of meetings, the Working Group convened by the Greater Indianapolis Progress Committee to review the police civilian review process has completed its deliberations. Most–but not all–of its recommendations have been incorporated…
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Category Archives: Local Government
Show Me The Money
Money talks–and politicians listen. (Even the President of the United States, who is evidently running a very expensive hotel.) Campaign costs have gone from astronomical to utterly ridiculous; in 1996, some Senate candidates spent over ten million…
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Abusing Power
David Boaz is Vice-President of the Cato Institute. He has just written a book: Libertarianism, A Primer; in it, he makes a scholarly and persuasive case for a market-driven, consensual society in which government plays a very limited, albeit…
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Property Tax & Civil Liberties
Recently, the Indiana Tax Court heard arguments in the Indiana Civil Liberties Union’s lawsuit against the State Board of Tax Commissioners. We claim that Indiana’s method of assessing property is unconstitutional…
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