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...assessors across the country have seen an uptick in the number of homeowners challenging their homes' appraisal value. The Wall Street Journal reported that in St. Tammany Parish, La., 15,000 residents - instead of the usual 500 - requested a review of their 2008 tax bills. And the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported that Cuyahoga County, which has about 1,300 foreclosures a month, saw three times as many appeals in 2007 compared with previous tax cycles. (See pictures of Cleveland's housing crisis...
Foster, 44, was well known to authorities in St. Tammany Parish, a relatively prosperous suburb just to the north of New Orleans, and in neighboring Washington Parish, where he lived in the working-class town of Bogalusa (population roughly 13,000). Earlier this decade, he pleaded guilty to monetary instrument abuse charges - essentially forgery and selling counterfeit money. In 2001, he became founding Imperial Wizard of the Southern White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. It launched chapters in Florida, Georgia and Ohio. Then, in 2005, it disbanded. His next act was the Sons of Dixie, and he drew...
Peter Borré, head of the Boston-based advocacy group Council of Parishes, disagrees. "The dioceses are using these parishes as a milking cow," he charges. "They need the cash to pay for sexual-abuse settlements. That is why more parishes are willing to go against their leadership: they want to stand up against such injustice." Borré, 70, a Rome-born, Jesuit-educated former energy executive, started the council to advise churches facing closure after his own parish in Charlestown, Mass., was shut in 2004. Borré has been involved in the Boston vigils from the beginning and is leading their appeal...
...Friends of St. Stan are ready for a long fight. "We are prepared to do what it takes," says David Aitken, 54, who used to ring the church bells. For the moment, at least, the diocese is treating its errant flock with patience. "Suffering the closing of your parish is like watching a parent die," says Monsignor Bonzagni. "If the parishioners at St. Stan's need to mourn this way, we will do nothing to interfere...
...downtown Wal-Mart for groceries, they say, mainly because it's often overcrowded and lacks basic products. "It's a horrible mess," Jones said on a recent Sunday morning, standing outside her family's church in the Lower Ninth Ward. She travels across the Mississippi River into neighboring Jefferson Parish for groceries. "We bring our tax dollars into other parishes, which is horrible. We shouldn't have to live like this," she says. "But unfortunately, our state and federal government has let us down. If we lived in another state, would we be suffering like this...