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Waterloo school board approves budget, increases property tax askings by 7%
Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier· 6 days agoThe district will collect $40.57 million in property and utility replacement excise taxes for the...
Don't Fall for These Psychological Tricks Companies Play on You to Spend More
Cheapism via AOL· 6 days agoIf you spend more money shopping than you mean to, it may not be entirely your fault. Retailers have...
Knox County Schools approves budget with historic raises for teachers and staff
Knoxville News Sentinel· 4 days agoKnox County schools board unanimously approved a $684 million budget for the upcoming year with a...
Roanoke City Council hears citizen budget concerns
Roanoke Times· 4 days agoNo tax rate increase is proposed for the upcoming city government year in Roanoke, but property evaluations rose again, resulting in higher tax bills for ...
Can Colorado cities prevent thousands of apartments from losing affordability protections?
Denver Post· 7 days agoThe first swing at passing the policy was a more expansive approach that also would have applied to...
After hiring bonanza, tech workers now grapple with layoffs and disillusionment
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) via Yahoo News· 5 days agoLisa Mabley was laid off a year ago from her job as a software engineer at a Twin Cities software...
Without fanfare, the Philippines is getting richer
The Economist· 7 days agoAt Cotabato airport travellers must join a long sweaty line to pay a tax of ten pesos (less than $0.20). Visitors to the Philippines have ample time to...
US economy slows in first quarter; inflation flares up
Reuters via AOL· 5 days agoThe U.S. economy grew at its slowest pace in nearly two years in the first quarter amid some...
Missed connections at the carbon market
Politico· 6 days agoThe legislation — which would assess fees on around 40 companies that emitted more than one billion metric tons of CO2 from 2000 to 2020 — has drawn opposition from the International ...
The drug war devastated Black and other minority communities. Is marijuana legalization helping?
The Daily Progress· 7 days agoWhen Washington state opened some of the nation's first legal marijuana stores in 2014, Sam Ward Jr....
