Wood County Voters Reject Excess Levy
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By Harris, Linda  City officials will have to find another way to fund their share of the riverfront park costs after voters this week narrowly rejected a $2.2 million excess levy that would have paid for it as well as other recreation projects.
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By Keich Whicker, The Macon Telegraph, Ga.  Sep. 20--Bibb County Tax Commissioner Tommy Tedders said Wednesday that an unknown number of property owners have received incorrect tax bills.
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The so-called "living-wage" ordinance that would have required mega-retailers here to pay their workers higher wages was successfully turned back Wednesday as supporters on the City Council could not muster enough votes override Mayor Richard Daley's veto.
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By JOHN BRENNAN Mountain View Telegraph  The biomass power plant proposed for Torrance County suffered a "serious setback" Tuesday when the state Environment Department denied an air quality permit for the project.
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By THOMAS RYLL, Columbian staff writer  With reluctance, and a certain amount of lamenting that there's no decent fancy restaurant in that corner of the county, commissioners on Tuesday extended for another  year a development ban in the Salmon Creek area.
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By Michelle Koetters, The Pantagraph, Bloomington, Ill.  Jun. 22--BLOOMINGTON -- Non-farmers reap the benefits of farm subsidies  across the country, but not in McLean County.
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Cost-conscious voters rejected school vouchers for Utah students, state-sponsored stem cell research in New Jersey and higher cigarette taxes in Oregon to fund health care for uninsured children.
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By SCOTT HARPER  BY SCOTT HARPER  THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT  RICHMOND - The State Water Control Board rejected two major development proposals Wednesday - one on the Peninsula, the other on the Eastern Shore - in decisions cheered by environmentalists and watermen.
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By Sharif Durhams, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Jun. 3--Residents in nearby Union County face fines now if they water their lawns on the wrong day.   Mecklenburg County officials have asked residents to cut back on water use.
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By Zane Wilson, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C.  Feb. 16--COLUMBIA -- A Midlands Senator on Thursday blocked passage of a bill that would allow city and county council members to excuse themselves, rather than having to resign, if business with associates or relatives comes before them.
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By Reid Magney, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Sep. 8--The battle over outdoor wood furnaces could heat up again next week as La Crosse County holds meetings and a public hearing on a proposed ordinance that would restrict their use.
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A Howard County judge yesterday rejected an effort to delay Rouse Co. shareholders from voting on whether the company should sell itself to a Chicago mall developer.
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By Destin Log, Fla.  Sep. 9--Rumblings a month ago made it clear that the proposed 1-cent (16.7%) sales tax increase for Okaloosa County was in trouble weeks before the referendum went before the voting public.
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By Julia Oliver, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Mar. 4--Union County has asked a court to uphold its growth-control ordinance in response to a developer's suit challenging its legality.
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By Monica Chen, The Herald, Rock Hill, S.C.  Mar. 2--The York County Council's approval of a new solid-waste management plan this week could push the county into a third legal dispute over landfills.
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By Julia Oliver, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Mar. 5--Union County has asked a court to uphold its growth-control ordinance in response to a developer's suit challenging its legality.
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A federal judge has refused to overturn an ordinance in a Pittsburgh suburb that requires anyone going door-to-door to register with authorities and carry a permit, including people working for get-out-the-vote campaigns.