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Langley treasurer Wanda Grone (2-11-23 Sound Off) asserts that protecting green open spaces in urban areas via Conservation Easements is contrary to providing affordable housing. She’s just plain wrong. Lack of buildable land is not why housing has become so expensive throughout the northwest.

Langley treasurer Wanda Grone (2-11-23 Sound Off) asserts that protecting green open spaces in urban areas via Conservation Easements is contrary to providing affordable housing. She’s just plain wrong. Lack of buildable land is not why housing has become so expensive throughout the northwest.

Fear and overreach continue to surround conservation easements.

We got a summary of the red flags in trump taxes that should have been followed up on, such as claiming mammoth business losses, and possibly claiming as business deductions, things that should have been just personal expenses loans to his kids, that really should have been possibly gifts. therefore he should have paid taxes on those gifts rather than deducting the interest from those loans. also, charitable deductions, such as conservation easements on his properties for which he did not provid...

Freeman Law is, and for years has been heavily involved in advising on and defense of conservation easement charitable contributions authorized under section 170, Title 26 of the Internal...

On December 6th, the IRS proposed regulations (and comment period for same) that would require participants and promoters of syndicated conservation easement transactions to make...

Here are small summaries of outdoor news in Montana.

“The key is money, and approving the greenspace sales tax is the most effective thing the public can do to counteract the swamping of the Lowcountry,” columnist David Lauderdale writes about a Beaufort County referendum on the ballot Nov. 8. | Opinion

While some townships are looking to save open space through ballot referendums, one Chester County township says that the process is complete.

Neighborhood group threatens to block a key section along Modoc Road