The Anoka County Board of Commissioners announced last week that their 2012 budget would include a reduction of property taxes of $8.14 million, marking a 7.43 percent decrease from the previous year and the first time in 30 years that spending for the next fiscal year will be less than the current budget projections. Last week the Anoka County board passed a budget containing a $98,531,229 …
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MINNEAPOLIS, MN--This lame duck session will be the last for outgoing 18-term Congressman Jim Oberstar (D-MN). But old habits die hard, including requesting tens of millions of dollars in earmarks in the omnibus appropriations bill before Congress. Oberstar leads the Minnesota House delegation in the appropriations process that’s come to be called pork barrel spending, attaching his name to 29 …
FFM was featured in the segment that ran on KSTP-TV on the Northstar Commuter Rail line extension. As reported, the Phase II extension from Big Lake to St. Cloud has been placed on hold. (Watch the piece on KSTP.com) FFM has been in the forefront of this debate, including our July report on Northstar: The Taxpayers' Missing Link?. …
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