Growing exemptions raise U S property tax bills nationwide
A growing number of tax exempt properties and waivers lift the burden onto other owners, with about one third of real estate untaxed and exemptions spanning churches, cemeteries, parsonages, universities, senior homes, veterans and welfare groups, and various organizations. The AP finds state records are incomplete and that urban areas, led by New York, face the sharpest impact as exemptions rise and potential revenue loss grows.
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Lee Migang
Associated Press
America
Advisory Commission on _ Intergovernmental Relations
Washington, D.C
Ymca’s
YMHA
The
Elks and the Eagles
U.S
Los Angeles
Houston
St. Louis
Philadelphia
Boston
New York
New York City
Snow leaves East Coast area powerless after storm
The Associated Press reports a weekend snow and ice storm left thousands without power across the East Coast. About 133,000 Long Island Lighting Co. customers in suburban New York and 21,000 Narragansett Electric Co. customers in Rhode Island faced outages, with restoration possibly delayed to Tuesday night and four to five days in Cranston.
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Associated Press
East Coast
Long Island Lighting Co
New York
New England
Rhode Island
Narragansett Electric Co
Cranston
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Derailments disrupt Indiana and Illinois rail lines near Kankakee
Rail traffic halted after a freight train derailed near Kankakee early Sunday leaving eight cars off the tracks. The Floridian Amtrak passenger train derailed near Ellettsville Indiana with sixteen hospitalized mostly for minor injuries. An Indiana incident west of Bloomington remains under investigation. In Illinois, a Downers Grove man faces reckless homicide and drunken driving charges after a multi-vehicle crash on I-55. One victim, John Lax of Cambridge Massachusetts, died in the crash. Information from AP.
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Amtrak
Flor
Ida
Chicago
Ellettaville
Ind
Illinois Central
Bloomington
Downers Grove
Illinois
John Lax
Cambridge
Mass
Thomas Pace
Lax
Interstate 55
Red tape imprisons man for 2 months
Joliet AP report details Willie Nunn a 41 year old Chicago man who spent two months in prison due to record keeping errors. corrections spokesman Ed McCarthy says Nunn served two years three months eleven days more than his six and a half year sentence.
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Illinois Department of Corrections
Willie Nunn
Statesville
Joliet
Nunn
Ed McCarthy
Corrections Department
James M. Bailey
Stateville
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Congress
Hubert Humphrey
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Champaign County
Allen Rednour
Park County
Illinois Prisons and Jails Project
Rend Lake
Carbondale
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Amoco Oil Company
Louis Wills
Gorham
Williamson County
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Blue Shield
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Jackson County
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