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Amendment Redistributes Severance Tax Revenue

September 28, 2010 | By Eric Boehm | Posted in Legislature

Final vote will wait for Wednesday

After an amendment was tacked on to a proposed new tax on natural gas extraction late Tuesday night, the bill will have to wait until Wednesday for final passage in the state House.

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$1 Billion And Counting For State’s Taxpayer-Funded Stadiums

September 17, 2010 | By Jim Panyard | Posted in General News

Part One of Two: State paid for 56 stadiums since 1999

Whether professional sports corporations could survive without subsidies for their playing fields, courts, rinks and diamonds is a legitimate question for the taxpayers providing those subsidies

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AG Wants ‘Unusual’ Combined Trial For DeWeese, Stetler

September 2, 2010 | By Eric Boehm | Posted in General News

Bonusgate duo had separate grand juries, hearings, and alleged crimes

The state Attorney General’s office has moved to join together the upcoming trials of two public officials accused of different crimes and indicted with different grand jury presentments.

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