Current rating: 0 19 Aug 2002
Modified: 20 Aug 2002
Champaign gives you $100,000 just for putting up another million-dollar apartment house.
Urbana gives you a million dollars just for putting up an extragavant new subdivision for the rich.
Champaign County joins with both the cities in an "economic development agreement" that gives tax breaks to businesses that shifts the tax burden onto homeowners and impacts revenue growth to meet continuing government needs.
Current rating: 0 17 Aug 2002
Modified: 18 Aug 2002
A forest fire that burned out of control for almost two weeks and devastated over 50,000 acres near San Diego was caused by a helicopter looking for pot farms, a California Department of Forestry investigation has concluded.