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We're No. 1 BRUCE SICELOFF ON CROSSTOWN TRAFFIC We have the priciest gas in the lower 48 states. The average price for self-service regular Friday was $3.672 statewide (and even higher in the Triangle, $3.744), according to...

SUVs, trucks to haul in less local revenue: Their drop in value means less tax money for public...

Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Oct. 12--The road to energy independence may leave local and state governments on a dead-end street with personal property taxes. Higher gasoline prices have fueled a steep drop in the value of...

Protest delays Exxon Valdez checks

Damage awards stemming from the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill were scheduled to be in the mail next week, but the payments could be stalled for a month or more. The settlement, which was slashed in June by the U.S. Supreme Court...

RTC ballot questions address budget shortfall

By Jeff DeLong • jdelong@rgj.com • October 12, 2008 Ensuring the region's transportation system can keep up with growth and dealing with a multibillion-dollar funding gap is the focus of two ballot questions before Washoe...

Fed Up With Taxes in Pine Tree State

This era finds our citizenry sometimes feeling like a butterfly in a hurricane in the midst of this crashing economy, seesaw gas prices, a punchdrunk housing market, and so on. Then comes a group of Mainers launching what...

Green Fee Needed Now

Impose higher federal and or state gasoline taxes now. Ok, I said it. Call it a ‘Green Fee' if you want. Call it anything you want, but provide funds to continue the recent progress toward a greener economy. Some background and...

Politics & Other Mistakes: Illusion of progress

AUGUSTA (Oct 12): As the world teetered on the brink of another Great Depression (“I dunno, Doc, I just can’t get excited about being a planet, anymore. But thanks to Gov. John Baldacci’s Dirigo Health program, I wouldn’t have...

Bob Ewegen: Liar, liar, pants on fire: The Amendment 58 fight

The one thing supporters and opponents of Amendment 58 have in common is a fervent belief that the other side is lying. The opponents, led by political consultant Rick Reiter, have spent millions to televise an untruth — the...

Governor not planning special session

By Bobby Harrison Daily Journal Jackson Bureau JACKSON - Gov. Haley Barbour is not planning to call a special session of the Legislature to take up the recommendations of his tax study commission. During the summer, speculation...

Idea to tax alcohol leaves readers cold

Tucson, Arizona | Published: 10.11.2008 The following letters are in response to the Oct. 5 article "Councilman suggests new tax on booze." Booze tax won't stop alcohol abuse I read that Councilman Steve Leal has asked our City...

               

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