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		<title>Spring-Ford School District faces $10.4M shortfall</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 17:38:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edmund Choi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The proposed preliminary budget for the 2011-2012 school year in Spring-Ford presented a variety of problems, the most significant being a $10.4 million deficit. School administrators are hesitant to discuss a tax increase since the budget is still in the planning stages. Expenses are increasing as revenues continue to fall. The district will face even [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bricksandsticks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=62594&amp;post=970&amp;subd=bricksandsticks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Upper Dublin School District opens budget discussions</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jan 2011 06:27:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edmund Choi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Upper Dublin administrators presented the school board with a proposed preliminary budget for the 2011-2012 school year. The preliminary plan includes a proposed tax hike of 5.85 percent which was broken down into four components: the Act 1 tax index is 1.4 percent; the new high school bond payment is 2.43 percent; pension exception is 1.03 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bricksandsticks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=62594&amp;post=967&amp;subd=bricksandsticks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Huge deficits seen for Radnor schools</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jan 2011 06:19:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edmund Choi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Radnor Township School District must face “brutal facts,” including what some officials say is a “structural problem” with how the district is funded and how it spends money according to Superintendent of Schools Linda Grobman. For example, by the year 2015-16 the school district could spend almost the same amount on benefits as it will [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bricksandsticks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=62594&amp;post=965&amp;subd=bricksandsticks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Little Known Strategy for Cutting Mortgage Payments &#8211; &#8220;Recasting&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 18:03:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edmund Choi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently the New York Times printed an interesting article on the concept of &#8220;recasting&#8221; as a means of lowering mortgage payments. From the article: &#8220;A little-known strategy, called &#8220;recasting,&#8221; or &#8220;re-amortization,&#8221; is available through some mortgage lenders and servicers. It involves paying off a lump sum of the principal amount and asking to have the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bricksandsticks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=62594&amp;post=954&amp;subd=bricksandsticks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Montgomery County could face congressional redistricting</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 19:17:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edmund Choi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Based upon recently released census figures, Pennsylvania will lose one congressional seat in the next two years. Although the state population increased, it was well behind the national average population growth allowing reapportionment of the state’s number of congressman from 19 to 18 for the 2012 election. In the next two years, the state government [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bricksandsticks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=62594&amp;post=933&amp;subd=bricksandsticks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Taxes up in Lower Merion</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 19:16:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edmund Choi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Lower Merion Township board of commissioners adopted a 2011 budget that includes a 10.8 percent increase in the township real estate tax. This translates to a real estate tax increase of $116 for the median home in the township with a property assessment of $283,000, for a total township real estate tax bill of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bricksandsticks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=62594&amp;post=931&amp;subd=bricksandsticks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lower Merion adopts anti-discrimination ordinance</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 19:16:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edmund Choi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lower Merion became the 18th Pennsylvania municipality to ban discrimination based upon sexual orientation, gender identity or expression with the unanimous adoption of an anti-discrimination ordinance. The ordinance also creates a Human Relations Commission to handle and investigate complaints. The ordinance provides new protections to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender citizens in the areas of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bricksandsticks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=62594&amp;post=929&amp;subd=bricksandsticks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Edgmont taxes head up slightly</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 19:16:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edmund Choi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Edgmont Supervisors approved the 2011 budget, which calls for a tax increase equating to about $15 annually for the average assessment. The total tax rate is .7202 mills, or approximately $212 for a home assessed at $295,000. Township Manager Samantha Reiner said the need for a modest tax increase resulted, for the most part, from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bricksandsticks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=62594&amp;post=927&amp;subd=bricksandsticks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Aston approves .35 mill tax increase</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 19:15:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edmund Choi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aston Commissioners adopted a 2011 millage rate of 4.00 mills, reflecting an increase of .35 mills more than the 2010 budget. A homeowner with a residence assessed at $200,000 will pay $800 in real-estate taxes in 2011; an increase of $70 over last year. The service fee will remain the same at $220 per single-family [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bricksandsticks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=62594&amp;post=925&amp;subd=bricksandsticks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nether Providence approves 4.97 percent tax boost</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 19:15:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edmund Choi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Nether Providence Board voted in favor of a fiscal plan that will boost taxes by 4.97 percent, to 4.09 mills. Commissioner Michael Dougherty, who chairs the Finance and Administration Committee, said the change will translate into a $44 township tax increase for a property assessed at $200,000. The township’s annual sewer rate for 2011 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bricksandsticks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=62594&amp;post=923&amp;subd=bricksandsticks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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