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BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
State Rep. Christopher Rants of Sioux City said he would put his focus on curbing property taxes, the exact opposite of the focus of Gov. Chet Culver, he said. Every Iowan will pay more property taxes because of the actions of the governor, he said. He told a story that he described [...]
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"Bank on California" Money Launderi (Free subscription) | yesterday
LOS ANGELES ... Assemblymember Ted Lieu (D-Torrance) joined Los Angeles County Assessor Rick Auerbach and other local officials to warn homeowners about misleading and official-looking letters asking for fees to file their property tax reduction requests and to highlight a new law, Assembly Bill 992 ...... more
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Religion Clause (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Today's Wilkes-Barre (PA) Times-Leader reports that Luzerne (PA) County officials are likely to follow the lead of several other Pennsylvania counties and remove the property tax exemption from closed churches and religious schools. Pennsylvania's tax code allows exemptions only for "actual places of regularly stated religious worship." (72 P.S. § 5453.202 [ LEXIS link ]). The new policy...
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JSOnline (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Metro Milwaukee school districts on average will increase property taxes by 4.96% in 2009-'10, with increases in eight school districts hitting the double digits, according to information from districts in Milwaukee and three suburban counties. Residents in the Maple Dale-Indian Hill School District in the North Shore area of Milwaukee County will see the largest one-year leap in school property taxes....
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rochesterturning.com (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Related posts:H.R. 1591 Passes 218 - 212This is what passes for qualifications'Property tax cap passes State Senate Related posts: H.R. 1591 Passes 218 - 212 This is what passes for qualifications? Property tax cap passes State Senate
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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
An $86 million proposal to construct a middle school and renovate Rockland’s aging high school won unanimous support at Tuesday’s Special Town Meeting. The real test comes Saturday, when voters decide by ballot whether they want to raise their property taxes for 25 years to cover the cost.
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DANGERDEMOCRAT (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Each week the NYS Dem party produces a long email kinda newsletter. Here is the fodder from HQ. Governor’s Corner The People First Governor Paterson's 2010 campaign released their first two television advertisements for the 2010 gubernatorial election. The two thirty-second ads, which will begin airing statewide on Friday, November 6, 2009, the ads focus on Governor David A. Paterson's life story...
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Right Coast (Free subscription) | yesterday
The blog might be kinda quiet this weekend, depending on how the health care voting status goes up on the hill, as there are lots of important issues going on here at home and a need to do a little community organizing. Monday night (10/9) the Salisbury City Council convenes and there is a work session afterwards to discuss the current litigation of chief Webster and the city. Regardless of what crazy...
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Blue Jersey: Covering NJ like a rug (Free subscription) | yesterday
Promoted by Jason Springer: A very candid take from Senator Weinberg on the race that was. Thank you for the shout out and for running. Let's get the negatives out of the way first: We lost! Property taxes, unemployment, property taxes, property taxes. That was it in a nutshell. To some of my colleagues whose egos might be a little out of control: Ray , was it really necessary to trash the Governor...
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PA Pundits (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Sultan Knish In 2000, Al Gore was a failed Presidential candidate with a paltry $2 million to his name. Not a lot of money for a guy whose lavish mansion gobbles up almost $150,000 dollars alone in electric utilities annually, and that, of course, is before property taxes and all the other costs of owning [...]
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Maria's Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
The recent post on salary raises at the school district made me realize how little attention has been paid to the school district contract negotiations and how little we know about what kind of negotiations our elected Board of Education do on behalf of our community. Thanks to another blog, Mount Olive Views, I was able to find information on contracts and more. The blog gave a link to a newspaper...
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | yesterday
Remember those Republican boasts that they would turn health care into President Barack Obama's Waterloo? Well, exit polls suggest that to the extent that health care was an issue in Tuesday's elections, it worked in Democrats' favor. But while health care won't be Obama's Waterloo, economic policy is starting to look like his Anzio. True, the elections weren't a referendum on Obama. Most voters focused...
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theonlinecitizen (Free subscription) | yesterday
MND releases cheaper lands for residential development. Related Posts Uniquely Singapore, F1 or F9?: Inflation up, HDB property tax up, statistics disappear, Ministers’ pay up again soon High property prices cloud the view of a generation Cool and funky… remember “hip & happening”?
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Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | yesterday
State Rep. Sam Rohrer, a champion of abolishing the school property tax in Pennsylvania, is poised to enter what is fast becoming a crowded field of candidates for governor.
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Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | yesterday
Tens of thousands of Salt Lake County residents can expect a one-two punch to their pocketbooks next year -- higher property taxes and a brand new bill for police protection.
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ifp | 19/10/2009
Local French property taxes have risen by an average of 6.1% this year, the largest increase in over 10 years. If you live within one of the larger towns or cities the average increase is 8%. For some, the increase has been significantly higher, with rates going up by 17.7% for the residents of Nice, while there are other large increases in Argenteuil (17.8%), Grenoble (17.1%), Metz (15.1%), and Montpellier