Deer Park: School Voters Guide 2008
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The district is proposing a budget of $94,471,150 for 2008-09, an increase of 4.83 percent over the current budget of $90,115,985.
The proposed tax levy would be 60,336,873, a 0.41 percent decrease from the current tax levy of $60,587,001.
School taxes on the average single-family house assessed at $4,000 would decrease from $6,659 to $6,632, a decrease [...]
Paul Kennedy Neocons worst nightmare
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Two words changed Paul Kennedy’s life. That they were just two words in a book of some 150,000, and that the whole phrase was three words long, was neither here nor there. No one was that interested in the qualifying adjective “relative” when the other two words were “US” and “decline“.The year was 1988, the [...]
Tax cut is looking unlikely as revenue estimates drop
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Utahns likely won’t be getting another tax cut this year.
Before the 2008 Legislature convened last month, lawmakers were talking about a $100 million property-tax cut to ease the concerns of Utahns faced with hefty tax increases last year thanks to a big boost in property [...]
Schools become storm shelters
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HIGHLAND As the storm finally broke and roads in northern Utah County began to clear Thursday, worried parents rushed to Ridgeline Elementary School in Highland to pick up their sleepy children.
The stranded students spent the night at the school, playing games and watching movies, finally [...]
Kids teachers head home after being stranded overnight at Highland school
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HIGHLAND As the storm finally broke and roads in northern Utah County began to clear early Thursday morning, worried parents rushed to Ridgeline Elementary School in Highland to pick up their sleepy children.
The stranded students spent the night at the school, playing games and watching [...]
Utah teen earns top ACT score
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Jared Bruton is used to being one of the few.
He’s one of just 202 students enrolled at Duchesne High School in rural Utah, where he’s captain of the Academic Decathlon and football teams and LDS Seminary Council president.
He was one of six [...]
ExLabor secretary sees deep recession
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A former Clinton administration leader is predicting a potentially “deep” recession, but he believes that the U.S. economy can overcome it.
Speaking at a conference Tuesday in Salt Lake City, Robert B. Reich, the U.S. Labor secretary from 1993 to 1997, predicted a 60 percent chance [...]
Checks on its way to mailbox #151; guv OKs teacher pay raises
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Teachers: Your money is here at last.
Educators in at least 23 school districts finally will get their full $2,500 raise the Legislature attempted to give them last session, when calculation errors essentially shortchanged them. The rest of those $1,000 bonuses is on its way, too.
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Voucher fight may creep into session
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When 60 percent of Utahns voted down the Legislature’s private school voucher law in November, there was much talk about how the 2008 Legislature would react.
Vengeful?
Remorseful?
Indifferent?
It’s still only one week into the 45-day general session, but [...]
Richard Darman Tax Architect for Reagan Bush Dies (Update1)
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Jan. 25 (Bloomberg) — Richard Darman, an influential
adviser to Republican presidents who had a hand in Ronald
Reagans landmark 1981 tax cuts and the 1990 increases that
marked George H.W. Bushs retreat from his “no new taxes
pledge, has died. He was 64. [...]
