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Sep 19 2023
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Rochester City Council adopts 2024 tax levy
(ABC 6 News) – This is something the Rochester City Council has been discussing at previous meetings, but some said the levy is already too high. Despite those concerns, the city council felt it was something that needed to be addressed. As of right now, the preliminary levy would be 9.44% but that could go down. In other words, the current percentage serves as the ceiling and it cannot be
ABC 6 KAAL
Sep 18 2023
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Rochester council caps 2024 property tax levy
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
Post-Bulletin
Sep 13 2023
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Minneapolis faces millions in annual costs for compliance with court-ordered policing reforms
Complying with court orders to end racist and unconstitutional policing in Minneapolis will require hiring nearly three dozen new workers at a cost of millions of dollars each year for years to come, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported Wednesday. The Minneapolis City Council on Monday formally took up Mayor Jacob Frey's proposed 2024 budget. It is the first spending plan directly connecting
Fox News (Online News)
Sep 05 2023
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No More ‘Kettling’: NYPD Agrees to Reform Its Protest Response
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
Daily Beast
Feb 13 2023
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Conservative tax reform advocates join Gov. Justice for roundtable
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
The Weirton Daily Times
Sep 20 2023
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Biden invites Netanyahu to Washington following months of tensions over Israeli PM’s judicial reform efforts
Biden invites Netanyahu to Washington following months of tensions over Israeli PM’s judicial reform efforts (CNN) — US President Joe Biden extended a delayed invitation to Washington to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday as they leaned into their four-decade friendship and highlighted areas of common ground Wednesday, but also discussed the issues that have divided them at
CBS 58
Sep 08 2023
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Sanders' special session will address cutting tax rates, one-time tax credit, changing FOIA
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
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette
Sep 26 2023
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California Gov. Newsom Doubles Tax On Guns And Ammo In Latest Gun Regulation Effort
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed multiple state gun regulation bills Tuesday including one that will double the taxes on gun and ammunition sales to fund violence intervention programs and public school security measures—as the governor makes gun regulation a key piece of his legacy amid increased mass shootings in the U.S. The gun tax bill, AB28, will enforce an 11% tax on the sale of
Forbes
Sep 26 2023
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California Gov. Newsom signs off on nation’s first state tax on guns and ammo
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a series of gun-control bills into law on Tuesday, including a hefty tax on guns and ammunition. Guns and ammo sales in California will now be subject to an 11% tax under Assembly Bill 28. Such sales are already taxed at 10-11% at the federal level, but California is the first state to introduce its own state tax. “I’m celebratory, because I’m proud that we
New York Daily News