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Forsyth revaluation expected to cut into county budget
The Forsyth County budget is expected to take a $11.4 million revenue hit in two years following the scheduled 2014 tax revaluation, which is anticipated to show a 12-percent depreciation in aggregate property values.
YES! Weekly |
Jordan Green |
02-16-2012 |
Politics
Tags: Forsyth county budget
Greensboro Exploring Options for a Performing Arts Center
Everyone seems to agree the War Memorial Auditorium at the coliseum complex has seen better days, a fact that has become increasingly clear over the past few years as the number of events dropped dramatically and necessary repairs went untouched.
YES! Weekly |
Eric Ginsburg |
02-16-2012 |
Politics
Downtown Winston-Salem contends with growing pains
City leaders hope to avert a collision between the interests of residents and business owners in downtown Winston-Salem by revising the city’s sidewalk café ordinance as the district’s vitality reaches a new level.
YES! Weekly |
Jordan Green |
02-16-2012 |
Politics
Tags: Downtown Winston-Salem
Northwestern Exposurenew
A three-candidate bloc in the Oro Valley Town Council race has opponents crying foul.
Tucson Weekly |
Brian J. Pedersen |
02-16-2012 |
Elections
How the Indianapolis Smoking Ban Went Up in Flamesnew
No compromise, no ordinance. The people who killed the smoking ban are ironically the same people who brought it to the table in the first place.
South Carolina's War on Democracynew
Was it coincidence or was it destiny? In this state, which is eternally reliving its past, the two seem indistinguishable. On the day that state Attorney Gen. Alan Wilson swore to defend South Carolina's new Voter ID law in federal court, the General Assembly was debating a new piece of legislation that would effectively shut down voter registration drives in the state.
Charleston City Paper |
Will Moredock |
02-15-2012 |
Commentary
The Mastodon in the Kitchennew
At 80, former Senator Alan Simpson remains one of the most influential politicians in the country.
Planet Jackson Hole |
Richard Abowitz |
02-14-2012 |
Politics
Tags: Alan Simpson, Election 2012
Free Trade Doesn't Worknew
There's been something wrong in this land for several decades now--most people have been sensing that but haven't been able to put a name to it. Finally, economist Ian Fletcher wrote a book called, "Free Trade Doesn't Work" which pretty effectively says it all.
Random Lengths News |
Lionel Rolfe |
02-13-2012 |
Commentary
Big Business Wants to Hide Political Contributionsnew
CalPERS is right to stand up to the One Percent.
East Bay Express |
Jay Youngdahl |
02-09-2012 |
Politics
Tags: CalPERS, Citizens United
Can't Do Nothin' For Ya, Mannew
Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant is grounded, and the Legislature's allowance is being reduced. This week, Bryant made his first executive budget recommendation to lawmakers at the Capitol. As expected, he took a do-the-same-with-less approach to government spending.
Jackson Free Press |
R.L. Nave |
02-09-2012 |
Politics
Religious Liberty Threatened by Everything Obama Does From the Moment He Wakes Upnew
Tennessee GOP lawmakers are predictably hopping onto the bandwagon of verbal assault on the mandate that health insurance plans cover contraception and birth control without exemptions for religiously affiliated hospitals and universities.
Nashville Scene |
Bruce Barry |
02-09-2012 |
Politics
Another Hoosierland Holy Warnew
Indiana State Sen. Dennis Kruse has authored a bill that he knows will result in lawsuits against school districts and that will inject religious theory into science class.
S.C. Venue Says GOPers Didn't Pay $227,000 Hotel Tabnew
The Charleston Place is suing the Southern Republican Leadership Conference, claiming the group booked nearly the entire venue for the weekend of the Republican primary and has since refused to pay its $227,872 bill.
Charleston City Paper |
Dan McCue |
02-03-2012 |
Politics
George Rodriguez lays out his go-local approach for the Tea Partynew
The mostly elderly, mostly white Tea Partiers inside the Northside sports bar sit with eyes trained on the wall of TV screens as a conference call organized by right-wing lobbying group the American Action Network is spinning rebuttals by an assortment of GOP all-stars and conservative thought-leaders to President Obama's "liberal tax-and-spend agenda" over the bar's loud speakers.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
02-01-2012 |
Politics
Tags: san antonio tea party
The GOP attacked Clinton for cheating, but they've given Newt a free passnew
I have always been primarily policy oriented in my politics. The most boring candidate imaginable has my support so long as he is right on the issues and the most charismatic politician imaginable is worthless to me if he does not support the right things. Much of my writing is dedicated to showing my fellow conservatives where their beliefs and behaviors regarding the principles of limited government are inconsistent or lacking. I believe conservatism must be about more than simply rooting for your favorite team.
Charleston City Paper |
Jack Hunter |
02-01-2012 |
Commentary
Tags: Newt Gingrich Cheating
