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The Housing Crisis and the Coming City Budget Crunch

By | 10.06.10 | 11:10 am

The federal government’s single biggest source of revenue is income tax, but cities and towns are primarily funded by sales and property taxes. That means Washington’s revenue took a huge hit in 2008 and 2009, as payrolls declined. But Springfield and Bethesda and Houston? The bust of housing market More…

Windy City To Tackle Warming

By | 09.19.08 | 3:30 pm

By developing its own plan to tackle climate change, California set a precedent for states looking to slash greenhouse gases. Now Chicago’s doing the same.  Mayor Richard Daley has laid out the first specific plan for a city to cut greenhouse gases to fight global warming.