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When Taxes “Only” Go Up, but Property Values “Only” Go Down
After the Tiverton Budget Committee put forward its recommendation for a 0.5% increase in local taxes, which was significantly less…
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School Department Builds Surplus, May Campaign for More
As I write this on Wednesday evening, the Tiverton School Committee has just announced a special meeting on Saturday morning…
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Tiverton Homeowners Paying 2044 Taxes with 1990 Income
A while back, while discussing the annual decision of voters to pass budgets that increase Tiverton’s tax levy by less…
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How the School Department Turned Temporary Stimulus into a Permanent Surplus
Being busy in spring 2011, I didn’t pay much attention when the Tiverton schools’ business administrator explained that the state…
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Taxpayers as an Excuse for Town to Gamble on Stocks
Question: What happens if Tiverton doesn’t make enough money from its pension fund investments? Having written a whole lot about government…
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Commentary
Jeffrey Caron: For Voters Concerned About Tiverton’s Taxes
With 18 candidates running for seven Town Council seats and nine candidates running for six Budget Committee seats, I created…
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Durfee Should Budget for the Living
A recent letter by Budget Committee Member Louise Durfee deserves response on two points. First, Ms. Durfee’s attempt to spin…
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Tiverton 1st Set Out to Teach Taxpayers a Lesson
If the Town Council follows through with the Budget Committee’s threat to end trash pickup in Tiverton (or charge extra…
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Driggs and Cook: Response to Reckless Comments from Activist Budget Committee Member
We are responding to Tiverton Budget Committee Secretary, Deb Scanlon Janick’s dangerously reckless statements, made in her recent letter to…
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Nancy Driggs: Apologies Are Due to Tiverton Budget #2 Voters
Following the FTR vote the Budget Committee re-convened on June 9, 2016 to carry out its remand responsibility to “determine…
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