• Labour councillors did not back Red Ed

    Updated: 2010-09-26 06:39:15

  • Utility Bill Postcards

    Updated: 2010-09-24 02:51:59
    Your governing board recently instructed you to look at any and all means to cut costs. In reviewing ways to streamline administrative expenses you discover that the unit can reduce its utility fee collection costs significantly by printing and mailing its water bills in postcard form. Excited to have an action item to report back [...]

  • Local Preferences in Public Contracting, Part 1

    Updated: 2010-09-22 16:39:40
    Hard times have come to Emerald City, North Carolina.  People are out of work, no one is buying or building anything, and it doesn’t look like things will get better anytime soon.  The Emerald City Council has decided that they need to take action to help out their local businesses, so they decide to pass [...]

  • Lib Dems back local money for local spending

    Updated: 2010-09-22 06:55:45

  • A powerful (and often overlooked) collection remedy

    Updated: 2010-09-09 15:23:38
    Few things can get the attention of a business owner as effectively as can the sight of that business’ inventory being loaded into a truck by a deputy sheriff to pay off outstanding taxes.  Most local government officials know that the levy, seizure and sale remedy is available for delinquent property taxes.  But can this remedy be used for occupancy taxes? [...]

  • Animal Cruelty: Did U.S. v. Stevens Change the Enforcement Landscape?

    Updated: 2010-09-08 21:49:34
    During its last term, the U.S. Supreme Court held in U.S. v. Stevens (130 S. Ct. 1577 (April 20, 2010), that a federal animal cruelty statute (18 U.S.C. § 48) was unconstitutional. The law criminalizes the creation, sale, or possession of a “depiction of animal cruelty with the intention of placing that depiction in interstate [...]

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