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Cloned: Inheritance Windfall: Record-Breaking Year For Estate Taxes Helps Fuel Budget Surplus
The Hartford CourantEven if death and taxes are the only things certain in life, state legislators say they can never be certain about death taxes. With no crystal ball and no idea when spectacularly wealthy Connecticut residents might die, state officials make an educated...Tags: Litchfield County, Fairfield County, L. Scott Frantz, Crime, Law and Justice, Laws
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Strong housing sector helps boost Michigan economy, U-M economist says
Detroit Free PressA stronger housing sector is helping push the economic recovery across the nation and in Michigan, a U-M economist told state officials today. Joan Crary of the Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics at U-M said the housing sector is contributing...Tags: Career and Workplace, Employment Opportunities, Freedom of the Press, Detroit Free Press, U.S. Department of the Treasury
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South Middleton School Board majority turns down a 2013-14 tax increase
The Sentinel, Carlisle, Pa.Thomas Hayes may have to wait to rest easy knowing the "fiscal cliff" for South Middleton School District is just two to three years away by his reckoning. In a set of motions Monday, this school board member voted "yes" in favor of a 1.2 percent tax...Tags: Voting, Health and Safety at School, Health Insurance Cost, Budgets and Budgeting, Public Finance
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EDITORIAL: State shouldn't pop champagne
The Wisconsin State JournalIt sounded pretty good last week: State revenue projections were up about $500 million through June 2015. But there's a catch -- actually, several. For starters, the May forecast for the national economy is "very similar" to the previous one in...Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Personal Income, Economic Indicator
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Obama's budget puts the onus on Ryan
WASHINGTON — When it comes to deficit reduction, President Barack Obama may have correctly taken the measure of Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles and U.S. corporate leaders; that's a reason why any deficit deal is more remote than ever. Two and a...Tags: Budget Control Act of 2011, Paul Ryan, Alan Greenspan, Social Security, George W. Bush
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Michigan projected to get $542 million more than expected
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan could take in $542 million more in revenue than projected four months ago — good news as lawmakers and Gov. Rick Snyder work to finalize a state budget in coming weeks. The nonpartisan Senate Fiscal Agency said...
Tags: Health Insurance, Budgets and Budgeting, Economy, Business and Finance, Finance, Rick Snyder
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State Pension Funds Recover Strongly In 2013
The Hartford CourantHARTFORD – Buoyed by the stock market's strong performance, the state's pension fund investments generated a return of 12.07 percent during the first nine months of the current fiscal year. State Treasurer Denise L. Nappier credits the growth to...Tags: Employees, Career and Workplace, Stock Market, Economy, Business and Finance, Finance
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Obama Defeated On Gun Control, Sequester
The Hartford CourantFate is fickle, power cyclical and nothing is new under the sun. Especially in Washington, where after every election the losing party is sagely instructed to confess sin, rend garments and rethink its principles lest it go the way of the Whigs. And where...Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Budget Control Act of 2011, State of the Union Address, Layoffs and Downsizing, Air Transportation Delays
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Star Tribune (Minneapolis) D.J. Tice column
Star TribuneA front-page story in Sunday's Star Tribune captured a clarifying transformation that has come to the great American tax debate in 2013. It seems that Gov. Mark ("Tax the Rich") Dayton is locked in yet another late-session showdown against...Tags: Elections, Health Insurance Cost, Barack Obama, Family, Washington, DC
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Chattanooga-based CBL posts higher earnings on better occupancy, sales
Chattanooga Times Free Press, Tenn.Despite a struggling national retail sales picture, CBL & Associates Properties Inc. reported Monday that first quarter earnings climbed on higher occupancy and rents. "We are seeing solid improvement in occupancy, net operating income, sales and...Tags: Office and Retail Spaces, Earnings Forecasts, Stock Market, Economy, Business and Finance, Rentals
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Adopted budget restores City School programs
Plattsburgh Press-RepublicanThe Plattsburgh City School Board has adopted a 2013-14 budget that maintains all current programs and restores some previous cuts, including gymnastics. The $39,632,807 spending plan, approved 5 to 3 at a recent meeting, represents a $200,000...Tags: Elections, Voting, Unemployment, Budgets and Budgeting, Career and Workplace
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U.S. House passes Pat Toomey's debt limit idea; Dent votes against bill
WASHINGTON — Lehigh Valley Congressman Charlie Dent was one of eight Republicans who bucked their party and voted against a debt ceiling contingency plan that was the brainchild of Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey. Toomey proposed the idea of...Tags: Credit and Debt, U.S. Congress, U.S. Department of the Treasury, U.S. Senate, The Wall Street Journal
May 11, 2013
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May 15, 2013
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May 14, 2013
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May 14, 2013
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May 14, 2013
|Column| Allentown Morning Call
May 14, 2013
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May 10, 2013
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May 2, 2013
|Column| Hartford Courant
Apr 30, 2013
|Story| McClatchy-Tribune
Apr 30, 2013
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Apr 30, 2013
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May 9, 2013
|Story| Allentown Morning Call
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