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The April issue of Budget & Tax News reports baseball’s Wrigley Field, home to the Chicago Cubs, may get a $300 million makeover paid for by the owners themselves rather than taxpayers. Local...
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The March issue of Budget & Tax News reports on Virginia Gov. Robert McDonnell’s controversial proposal to end the state’s gasoline tax and replace it with higher sales taxes and fees. Neither...
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The February issue of Budget & Tax News reports Michigan became the nation’s 24th right-to-work state when Gov. Rick Snyder signed landmark legislation in mid-December. David Denholm of Public...
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The January issue of Budget & Tax News reports Cigarettes, firearms, poker machines, and items purchased outside the county will cost Cook County, Illinois businesses and residents more under the...
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The December issue of Budget & Tax News reports an interesting case of government failing to be transparent: The Scottsdale, Arizona city council has voted to spend nearly $2 million for a new...
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The October issue of Budget...
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The September issue of Budget & Tax News reports President Barack Obama has asked Congress to take up legislation that extends for only one year the Bush-era tax rates, only for families earning...
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The intense political brawl that was the Wisconsin gubernatorial recall election came to a quick and decisive end on the evening of June 5, with sitting Gov. Scott Walker retaining his seat by a...
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The July issue of Budget & Tax News reports Social Security has an unfunded liability of $8.6 trillion and will run out of money by 2033, three years earlier than projected just one year ago,...
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The June issue of Budget & Tax News reports property taxes have risen twice as fast as consumer prices in Cook County, Illinois since 2000, with the steepest increases in suburban Chicago. The...
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The April issue of Budget & Tax News reports a key piece of Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley’s legislative agenda this year involves shifting some government employee pension costs away from the...
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The March issue of Budget & Tax News reports the findings of an independent panel named to evaluate California’s plans for high-speed rail. The group concluded the state’s proposed high-speed...
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The February 2012 issue of Budget & Tax News leads with a report on the overwhelming approval by Rhode Island lawmakers of a measure to change the state’s pension system to improve solvency and...
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The January 2012 issue of Budget & Tax News reports on the looming bankruptcy – or will it be a takeover by the state? – of Harrisburg, capital of Pennsylvania. The city’s finances are a mess, at...
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The December issue of Budget & Tax News reports the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee has ended rail boosters’ hopes of getting a meaningful appropriation for high-speed rail in FY 2012,...
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The October issue of Budget & Tax News reports government workers in Wisconsin may be wondering whether their effort to recall six state senators from office was worth the price. The government...
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The September issue of Budget & Tax News reports on the government “shutdown” that lasted nearly three weeks in Minnesota, ending in July when lawmakers and the governor agreed on a two-year...
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The June issue of Budget & Tax News highlights on Page 1 efforts by Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder to close the state’s $1.8 billion FY 2010 budget deficit without a net tax hike.
Also in this...
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The April issue of Budget & Tax News covers the ongoing protests in Madison, Wisconsin, where thousands of government workers were staging sit-ins at the State Capitol building. More than a dozen...
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The March issue of Budget & Tax News leads with a report on the $7 billion tax hike passed by Illinois Democrats in the dead of night on the last day of the state’s lame-duck legislative...
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The February issue of Budget & Tax News reports on reactions to proposals (at the time the issue was written) to extend the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts. Also in this issue:
The Illinois Senate passed...
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The December issue of Budget & Tax News describes efforts by the board of trustees of the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund to end pension “spiking,” which allows government workers...
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The January 2011 issue of Budget & Tax News reports that cash from the federal government is now the largest revenue source for state and local governments, surpassing sales and property taxes....
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The October issue of Budget & Tax News leads with news that Indianapolis taxpayers are being forced to bail out the city’s NBA Pacers. The city’s Capital Improvement Board voted in July to...
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The September issue of Budget & Tax News describes a growing controversy in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where the teachers union refuses to negotiate its health insurance plan – a move some say...
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