The first significant snowfall this winter in south-central Indiana sent snowplow drivers scrambling to clear the roads and municipal officials scrambling to pay for it. And unplowed roads and students forced to stay home from school may figure into an ongoing debate at the Indiana Statehouse.
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Columbus City Council members dumped a proposed across-the-board $12 user fee for trash pickup, amending the ordinance to instead incorporate a tiered system. But as WFIU’s Regan McCarthy reports, the issue, which has been around since early this year, hasn’t been decided yet.
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A high unemployment rate – close to nine percent now – could attract businesses to Columbus. That’s according to Mayor Fred Armstrong. He recently returned from a trip overseas courting companies to his southern Indiana city, some of which said Columbus used to have too small of a unemployment pool for them to invest in.
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A year ago Columbus lost more than two thousand homes, was forced to vacate its hospital, saw two citizens die and suffered hundreds of millions of dollars in damage from a flood meteorologists say was a once-in-500-years disaster. With the city mostly recovered, residents are now trying to understand what the disaster meant to their community.
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Officials in Columbus are hoping to pad the city’s 2010 budget, which faces a 4-million dollar defecit, by charging residents a user free for city trash pickup. But, as WFIU’s Regan McCarthy reports, a public outcry is changing the mayor’s mind.
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City and county governments in Indiana are searching for ways this summer to generate more revenue next year when property tax caps move a notch closer to the 1,2 and 3 percent circuit breakers approved by the General Assembly in 2008. As a result, Bartholomew County Council members must consider a host of new taxes and user fees.
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On Wednesday, WFIU aired the first part of a story about the battle for signatures to either save or stall construction of the Columbus Commons. The anti-Commons effort is being led by one man, who also forced for signature battle. Daniel Robison caught up with him, to try to find out just why he’s trying to defeat the project.
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A group of Columbus citizens is trying to collect one hundred signatures by February 23rd in order to force a remonstrance on the city's $18 million dollar restoration of its downtown Commons building. WFIU's Daniel Robison reports.
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