Anna Phillips

Dozens of residents needed to be rescued from rising water, and hundreds of roads were closed as the storm moved over the central part of North Carolina.

Local public services are cornerstones of our communities, ensuring that our children are educated, our communities are safe and healthy, and public spaces like parks and libraries can be enjoyed by all. Unfortunately, local governments' ability to provide these services is under threat as state legislators across the country have called for inequitable and costly across-the-board property tax cuts under the guise of addressing housing affordability. Most of the proposals this year have

Iowa lawmakers have approved a new state budget that lays bare the growing cost of the state’s tax-cut agenda: to balance the books, they’re now planning to use over $900 million in state...

Ideal in dry climates and cheaper than air conditioning, evaporative coolers were once hugely popular. Climate change may be hastening their disappearance.

Wyoming lawmakers enacted a sweeping 25 percent property tax cut this year for homes valued up to $1 million. But the legislation passed without any plan to replace the critical funding it will strip...

Proposing an upgrade in an area known as “Flash Flood Alley,” developers assured city officials that guests would have time to flee.

ELLIJAY, Ga. — One measure of the success of Pleasant Grove Baptist Church’s bus ministry is the sheer number of kids running around. On some Wednesdays, that could be as many as 60, ages 4 to 16.

Tax laws work best when they are transparent, apply fairly to everyone, and can raise the revenue required to meet the needs of our communities. Tax loopholes that allow well-resourced people or...

Taxes work best when they ask more from those who have more to give and fund services that support our communities. Mansion taxes can bring state codes closer to this goal, effectively counter the...

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