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ROCHESTER — The Rochester City Council voted 6-1 Monday to cap the city’s property tax collection in 2023 at $101.5 million. “This is the top we can go,” council member Shaun Palmer said of the approved preliminary tax levy to fund the current version of a proposed 2024 city budget. “We can always go lower before Dec. 4.” Council member Patrick Keane said the proposed 9.44% increase “feels

New York City’s police department has agreed to a legal settlement aimed at mitigating conflict with and intimidation of peaceful protesters, a landmark resolution in the wake of the 2020 racial justice protests that is expected to see the department eradicate several controversial tactics used on demonstrators. The settlement was reached after state Attorney General Letitia James and several

CHARLESTON — With two competing plans to provide tax relief to West Virginians before the Legislature, Gov. Jim Justice brought two national conservative tax reform advocates to the state. Justice held a tax reform roundtable Monday at the Culture Center on the grounds of the State Capitol Complex with Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, and Stephen Moore, distinguished

Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced Friday that she is calling the Arkansas General Assembly into special session, starting Monday, to cut the state’s top individual and corporate income tax rates by 0.3% each, effective Jan. 1, 2024, and grant a $150 one-time tax credit for taxpayers making less than $90,000 a year, retroactive to Jan. 1, 2023. The state’s top individual income tax rate is