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Just want to remind the Lehigh County Democrats how crazy popular the Green Future Fund was when voters approved it back in 2002: On May 21, voters in fast-growing Lehigh County overwhelmingly approved the Green Future Fund, a $30 million county bond to protect open space and farmland and to expand and improve local parks. [...]
May 22, 2013 By Jon Geeting Leave a Comment
Lynn Olanoff has the update. Waldron is now up 70 votes. If this holds once the broken voting machine’s votes are counted, there will be a 5-member governing majority of progressives on Bethlehem City Council. When Bob Donchez gives up his seat to become Mayor, there will be an opportunity to replace Donchez with another [...]
May 22, 2013 By Jon Geeting Leave a Comment
In this era of tight budgets, cities are looking for ways to grow their tax bases without asking individual households to contribute more taxes. Here’s the first place they should look. Different kinds of buildings yield different amounts of property tax revenue per acre. Many areas limit residential development to just one house per acre. [...]
May 22, 2013 By Jon Geeting Leave a Comment
In this era of tight budgets, cities are looking for ways to grow their tax bases without asking individual households to contribute more taxes. Here’s the first place they should look. Different kinds of buildings yield different amounts of property tax revenue per acre. Many areas limit residential development to just one house per acre. [...]
May 13, 2013 By Jon Geeting Leave a Comment
The point of political blogging is not that you’ll directly reach so many voters that you’ll shape opinions about elections. The point is that for every couple dozen low-information voters, there’s a *political friend* who people ask who to vote for the week before an election. The point of blogging is to shape the opinions [...]
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