Property Tax

(AP) - There's disagreement in Kansas over whether oil company TransCanada should be exempt from paying millions in property taxes for the section of its Keystone pipeline that moves oil through Kansas to Oklahoma.     The Kansas Department of Revenue...

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake expressed concerns about her schools chief's proposal to borrow $1.2 billion to fix Baltimore's crumbling school buildings, touting her own more modest plan as realistic in her State of the City address Monday. The mayor...

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's administration is gearing up for a tough fight over her plan to raise Baltimore's bottle tax to pay for repairs to dilapidated city schools. A bill to increase the 2-cent tax to 5 cents – and devote all bottle-tax...

Property tax increases from a proposed project on the Imperial County-Riverside County line may go toward restoring the Salton Sea. The Salton Sea Authority is looking at what it would take to form an infrastructure finance district, a defined area where...

More discussion has to take place to see whether Imperial County is willing to give up some of its property taxes to go toward Salton Sea restoration. The Salton Sea Authority went over the totals that an infrastructure finance district is anticipated to...

Real estate agents will tell you that a number of factors contribute to relocation decisions: police protection, water quality and proximity to the workplace. And, of course, taxes. "People always complain about taxes, even when they're not out of line,...

Scheduled meetings this week of the Washington County Commissioners and Hagerstown's Mayor and Council (the county Board of Education will not meet this week): WASHINGTON COUNTY COMMISSIONERS County Administration Building 100 W. Washington St.,...

Times are tough and some legislators at the Capitol are looking to ease the tax burden on homeowners. Two proposals before the House of Representatives look to change the school property tax structure across the state. Both bills are still in the early...

Those who wish to lose weight — and with summer swim season around the corner that's probably most of us — know that there are two easy ways to sabotage one's diet and exercise program. The first is to try to do too much all at once and fail,...

A public hearing is scheduled for Tuesday night to allow Hagerstown residents to comment on the city’s proposed budget for the 2012-13 fiscal year. The budget hearing will take place along with two other public hearings, starting at 7 p.m., in...

A measure that would raise property taxes and possibly save some Zionsville teachers' jobs will appear on Tuesday's ballot. The Zionsville School Board of Trustees voted April 24 to cut programs and lay off staff members in an effort to close a $2.5...

Only a handful of citizens turned out Tuesday evening for a trio of public hearings on Hagerstown’s proposed budget for the next fiscal year. The first hearing, on the proposed annual action plan for the city’s Community Development Block...