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n Because officials hadn't formalized pact on red-light camera, drivers who had been cited will receive refunds
On a rainy night last week, before a crowd of about 50, Columbia City Council gave initial approval to two special tax districts.
Special hearing for Greg Taylor resumesA Wake County jury convicted Greg Taylor in 1993 of killing Jacquetta Thomas, and he has exhausted the usual routes of appeal. Taylor returned to the witness stand this morning as the second day of the hearing began before a panel of three judges.
Because the formula is based on a community’s tax base — including adjusted gross income, property values, taxable retail sales, population and school enrollment — the changes affect each school district differently.
Norwich City Council has today secured its long-held home rule dream after ministers gave the green light to the controversial plan to create a city only unitary.
The recent death toll for those who perished in the recent earthquake in Haiti has now reached a staggering 212,000. Homelessness was a major concern for the residents of Haiti even before the earthquake struck.
“In the last two months, average kilowatt-hour consumption by residential customers has increased 75 percent as we have tried to stay warm against the coldest streak of weather in 40 years,” said Zack Dusenbury, vice president of retail operations for Santee Cooper.
The tuition increase for S.U.N.Y. students is hardly the only example of New York State leaders using money from taxes and fees for purposes other than to improve those services.
In his second meeting with the press in five days, Toyota Chief Akio Toyoda said yesterday that the corporation is recalling 437,000 2010 Prius and other hybrid models in Japan
Maryland Congresswoman Donna Edwards turned to Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis for guidance in framing the constitutional amendment she proposed last week as the right and necessary response to the decision by Chief Justice John Roberts and a high court majority to abandon law and precedent with the purpose of permitting corporations to dominate the political discourse.
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