The time has come to take a stand for the trees.
Not just because a tree is a tree, but because of the history and purpose of trees in Jackson Hole.
Townâs earliest settlers recognized how trees block wind and offer cooling shade when they began planting them more than a century ago. Along the way, as neighborhoods developed in the valley, trees were added adjacent to dwellings, along fence lines and streets.
Itâs only in recent years that mature landscaping has seemed to get the ax in the name of progress, with building envelopes being pushed to the edges of residential lots and large box-shaped homes replacing sprawling green yards.
Uber-rich use legal tax strategies to pay next to no income tax: ProPublica
Overall, the richest 25 Americans pay less in tax - an average of 15.8% of adjusted gross income - than many ordinary workers do, once you include taxes for Social Security and Medicare, ProPublica found
Associated Press | June 9, 2021 | Updated 19:41 IST
Tesla founder Elon Musk s income tax bill was zero in 2018
The rich really are different from you and me: They re better at dodging the tax collector.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos paid no income tax in 2007 and 2011. Tesla founder Elon Musk s income tax bill was zero in 2018. And financier George Soros went three straight years without paying federal income tax, according to a report Tuesday from the nonprofit investigative journalism organization ProPublica.
Biden wants to close the digital divide in the US. Here’s what that could look like
The former auto parts warehouse Bill O’Boyle is refurbishing in Wilson, North Carolina, looks like a relic now, but within the next year, he hopes, it will be filled with dozens of people running his fast-growing tech consulting business.
It’s his second building, and he says the facility will let his workers compete, anchoring them in Wilson, about an hour outside the technology hub of Raleigh-Durham.
“It will be just as modern and advanced as other tech spaces you’d see in larger markets,” O’Boyle said.
President Obama may be ready to make some changes in NSA spying – Detroit Free Pressby wpjljron
Saturday, December 21st, 2013.President Obama may be ready to make some changes in NSA spying – Detroit Free Press WASHINGTON President Barack Obama suggested Friday that he may be ready to make some changes in the bulk collection of Americans’ phone records to allay the public’s concern about privacy. Obama said he has not yet made any decisions about the National Security Agency’s collection programs. But among the dozens of recommendations he’s […]
WASHINGTON President Barack Obama suggested Friday that he may be ready to make some changes in the bulk collection of Americans’ phone records to allay the public’s concern about privacy.
Rep. Moore requested $19 million for projects in Milwaukee. By Laura Olson - Jun 9th, 2021 12:17 pm //end headline wrapper ?>(Photo by Martin Nilla/Wisconsin Examiner)
WASHINGTON U.S. House Democrats’ highway funding bill is poised to include roughly three out of five transportation projects submitted by members, as legislators vie for their share of federal dollars through the resurrected congressional earmarks process.
The 1,473 projects that made the cut were out of 2,383 that Democratic and Republican legislators requested for inclusion in a federal infrastructure bill, at a time when infrastructure is the subject of prolonged, high-profile negotiations between the White House and Republicans in Congress.The earmarks list detailed in an amendment to five-year, $547 billion surface transportation reauthorization bill that the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee will take up on Wednesday has a price tag of $5.7 billi