| Portlanders may have another tax day: Nov. 4
Now that city Commissioner Sam Adams' $464 million street fee proposal appears to be headed for the November ballot, it joins a crowd of other potential initiatives that will compete for voters' tax dollars. Local pollster Tim Hibbitts, of Davis, Hibbitts & Midghall, said that, especially in tough economic times like the country appears to be facing, voters sometimes suffer from "ballot fatigue" when faced with a swarm of tax increases — fatigue that might come into play this fall. "The city is pretty liberal, but when times get tight even liberal voters look at their pocketbooks and say, 'How much can I afford?' " he said. "They might say, 'Gosh, this one I can vote for, but I just can't see three or four tax increases.' " So far, the measures appear to be a Portland Public Schools facilities levy that would cost at least $900 million, a Multnomah County public safety levy that could cost $25 million to $30 million year, and a five-year renewal of the Portland Children's Investment Fund that would cost $14 million per year.
University of Michigan's Zell Lurie Institute Awards $85,000 to ...
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Feb. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- The Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business today announced the recipients of the 2008 Eugene Applebaum Dare to Dream Grant Program and 2008 Michigan Business Challenge award. Grant recipients and award winners were presented with resources in the form of advice and counsel and funding totaling $85,000 for excellence in new business plans and concepts. Bringing together entrepreneurial-minds from business, engineering, medicine and other departments at the University of Michigan, Dare to Dream and Michigan Business Challenge offer students the opportunity to develop and present their business plans, receive feedback from skilled entrepreneurs and faculty, and be rewarded with funding and support.
Ald. Mahoney has sensible plan to fix infrastructure
Ald. Mahoney has sensible plan to fix infrastructure Ald. Mark Mahoney’s proposal to help finance the infrastructure needs of the city makes perfect sense. Springfield is a company town. The companies are state government and the Lincoln sites. Both of these industries involve mass amounts of street traffic with little return to the funds that finance the maintenance of those streets. You have to look no further than any main arterial road into Springfield at rush hour to see the magnitude of traffic that enters this city every day. Secondly, the city receives no property tax from any state facility. When you add to that the flat revenue that finances our street needs, the city infrastructure has suffered. If you didn’t know, city street improvements are financed primarily by motor fuel taxes (MFT).
NEVADAN AT WORK: Affinity for public helps exec succeed
Name: Eileen Bechtol. Position: Senior vice president, Chicago Title. Family: Husband, William Forrest; sons, Matthew and Brandon. Education: Basic High School, 1972; Clark County Community College (Southern Nevada College), business management and accounting. Work history: First National Bank of Colorado Springs (Colo.), real estate mortgage department, 1974; Stewart Title, loan servicing department, 1975; Chicago Title, escrow secretary, 1975; Land Title of Nevada, escrow officer, 1976; moved to Reno and started mortgage company with her husband In 1977; moved back to Las Vegas in 1979 and went to work again for Land Title until 1991; after two brief stints as escrow manager for Chicago Title and Stewart Title, returned to Chicago Title in 1995 and was promoted to senior vice president in 2005.
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