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Mamdani devotes $260M to replacing cops with social workers
Jon Levine writes for the Washington Free Beacon about one of the New York City mayor’s latest bad ideas. New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani (D.) is sinking a quarter…
Municipal Corporation of Delhi
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Mamdani’s utopian vision meets reality
Editors at National Review Online assess the New York City mayor’s current fiscal challenges. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday unveiled his first budget, which came in the…
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Soaring Murder Rates Won’t Deter Blue City from Defunding Police
Jason Rantz writes for the Federalist about one West Coast city’s disregard for its residents’ safety. When the Seattle City Council defunded and demonized the police, homicides hit a 26-year…
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Charlotte greenway comes up $77 million short. Council members are stunned….
Outraged…..embarrassed…disappointed. Charlotte Observer reports the city’s Cross Charlotte Trail—a 26-mile pedestrian and bicycle trail from Pineville to UNC Charlotte—has a $77 million funding gap: Now, the plan’s future is murky,…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Rocky Mount bets big on government
The big gamble at the heat of Rocky Mount is it’s Event Center, on which the John Locke Foundation has considered an unwise burden for taxpayers and raised a number of…
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W-S car fee to help pay for roads?
Winston-Salem Journal reports the City Council is considering a $15 per car fee to help pay for street repairs as it continues negotiating the 2017-2018 budget. Building and maintaining roads…
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W-S council member’s simple transit philosophy
Winston-Salem City Council members continue to haggle over City Manager Lee Garrity’s proposed budget, which would raise taxes on W-S citizens. The sticking point—as reported earlier— is the city’s transportation…
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Gboro council fills performing arts center budget hole
No doubt you’ve heard or read that the Greensboro City Council approved a plan to fill the $9.6 millionn budget gap for the Steven Tanger Center for the Performing Arts.…
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More Realistically
Allan Fedor wrote a commentary for the Mountain Xpress on what became the hottest campaign issue in the last Asheville City Council election. Several people want to put a park…
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Is It Coincidence? Or Is Money Really Fungible?
This weekend, LEAF is hosting a festival downtown. This follows an urgent request from representatives of that group for $15,000 at the last city council meeting. The group, allegedly due…
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Council: Has Surplus, Needs More Money
The last meeting of Asheville City Council is now uploaded for viewing. Of interest are the budget discussions. It was argued that the city could not dip into its fund…
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Parasitic Appetite
Laurel Park wants to raise taxes four cents. There are a lot of rich people there, but there are some poor people, too. If they were all rich, I’d say…