Times are tough

Property tax reform has local governments sweating every dollar, and that's the way Gov. Mitch Daniels thinks it should be. New Albany is now deliberately shifting a portion of its public safety salary expenses to its Economic Development Income Tax fund for this year and possibly 2011. New Albany will lose $641,000 this year and $844,000 in 2011 when the caps take full effect. Photographs of Gov. Mitch Daniels accompany the article