Indiana is now almost 19 years beyond a bipartisan report urging local government reform, most notably a call to end the township system. Every year since the 2007 report, a vocal minority in the ...

The threat of property taxes being eliminated in Ohio has brought up the idea of townships becoming cities so they can adopt ...

When people talk about small government, they usually mean a government that’s close to the people it serves. Yet some wrongly think eliminating townships will make government smaller. I serve on a ...

Senator Rick Niemeyer (R-Lowell) discusses his bill requiring some townships to merge. Lawmakers are once again trying to dissolve some township governments in Indiana. Indiana set up the township ...

The Indiana State Senate has passed a bill that will require the merging of townships, based on a points system.