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...fathom why they are paying higher taxes on homes with tumbling prices. However, with at least 44 states facing budget woes in the coming year, it's a movement that, if successful, could make it tougher on states to raise revenues. And yet, with the Georgia general assembly about to start its session next week, Lindsey says he hopes both houses will quickly pass his bill to cap growth in assessments...
...British Columbia Attorney General Wally Oppal ended speculation that the government intended to co-exist with Bountiful by ordering the arrest of settlement spiritual leaders Blackmore, 52, and James Oler, 44, under charges of polygamy. According to press accounts, Blackmore is alleged to have as many as 26 wives and 108 children. (According to tradition, the first wife is listed as a legal marriage, and the others are "celestial wives" recognized only within their faith.) The upcoming trial will test polygamy laws in the face of the Canadian Charter of Rights and its broad protection of the exercise of religion...
...Toward the end of the general-election campaign, Obama was asked repeatedly what initiatives he would cut given the increasingly bleak economic reality. His responses then were suitably vague, and it turns out the answer appears to be: very few. Instead, most of those programs (and their price tags) are being added to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan, all in the name of fixing the economy...
...Israelis have doubted that they had a partner who could deliver them peace; aside from being plagued by disunity, the Palestinians have been unwilling to modify their demands that Palestinian refugees be allowed to return to their ancient homes inside Israel, which Israel will never accept. With a general election looming in Israel - polls suggest that the hawkish Benjamin Netanyahu is likely to become the next Prime Minister - there is an opportunity to start talking again...
...view of analysts who had expected just such an incident since the onset of Israel's offensive against Hamas. There was no claim of responsibility for the attack, although suspicion has fallen on militant Palestinian groups such as the Damascus-based Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC), which may have acted with a nudge and a wink from Hizballah. Hizballah, Hamas and other Palestinian groups denied responsibility. "When Hizballah does something, it announces it and has no problem doing so," says Mohammed Fneish, minister of labor in Lebanon's national unity government and also...