Charlie Dooley
St. Louis County Executive Charlie Dooley’s budget for next year calls for extending a pay freeze for a second year.
Dooley this morning submitted to the county council a total county budget of nearly $498.8 million for next year. The total…
A civic activist from University City has filed an ethics complaint against St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch relating to the campaign for a countywide 0.1-cent emergency communications sales tax. Voters will consider the tax on Tuesday.
Tom Sullivan, the activist,…
St. Louis County won’t mail its property tax bills until November, giving candidates and backers of issues on the Nov. 3 ballot a break.
Tax bills always will ruffle the feathers of some voters. But since this mail will arrive…
Jay Nixon
School districts, fire protection and other districts and almost all municipalities in St. Louis County must set their property tax rates by Sept.1, as they had in the past. Some school officials said they won’t have all the information…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Several hundred state-goverment and human-services workers are downstairs in the Illinois state Capital rotunda right now, loudly rallying once again for a tax increase to prevent state budget cuts and worker layoffs.
Once again it appears that their…
UPDATE: 1 p.m.: The crowd here has swelled to the point that Capitol security has barred more people from entering the building. Quinn addressed the demonstrators a little while ago, in a short, passionate speech loaded with the familiar Abraham Lincoln references…
UPDATE, 9:50 p.m. — The full Senate approved the 5 percent income tax tonight. Still looks unlikely that the House will touch any tax hike like this.
UPDATE, 5 p.m. — This passed the committee on a partisan vote, and could be…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Illinois’ fight over a huge new cigarette tax is likely to reignite soon. Most indications are that it’s going to pass - but the tobacco industry isn’t conceding just yet.
The proposal, as we’ve reported here before, is…
A campaign committee promoting a tax increase of 13.5 cents for each $100 of assessed valuation for the Webster Groves library have raised $14,425 for their effort to pass the proposal in a special election next Tuesday. As of Jan.…
