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South Florida property owners `flipping out’ over tax notices

As Miami-Dade and Broward property owners received tax notices in recent days, many were surprised — and angry — to see proposed increases.
BY AMY SHERMAN, VYTENIS DIDZIULIS AND CHARLES RABIN

The proposed tax notices arriving in Miami-Dade and Broward mailboxes in recent days have stirred a wave of protest, with dozens of homeowners taking to the streets Thursday and thousands of others dialing their property appraiser’s office.

The Complete Story…

Additional Thoughts:

Let’s see – why raise taxes when we are faced with the following issues:

• Property values declining
• Skyrocketing Foreclosures
• Increased bankruptcies
• Businesses are folding at an alarming rate
• Property Insurance Increases
• FP&L requesting increases
• Healthcare is a mess and the costs are still climbing
• Decreasing public services – all cities and counties are cutting back
• Cutting or freezing police and firefighters benefits and pay
• State declaring short falls in funding for schools – parents will have to pick up the difference
• Increasing unemployment and extended unemployment benefits
• Major declines in stock market and personal investments have decreased in half
• Millions spent on medical coverage for illegal immigrants – that the states have to pick up – that are costing tax payers billions
• Cities and counties bankrolling new projects
• Double-digit pay raises for government advisors

“On the first day of TRIM in August 2005, we received 88,000 phone calls and knocked out every phone in the governmental center because property values skyrocketed,” said Broward Property Appraiser Lori Parrish.

TRIM — Truth In Millage — mailed notices – property tax increases – Many cities propose an increase of at least 20 percent

What happened to annual balanced budgets? Aren’t Cities, Counties, and States required by law to have balanced budgets?

Bernanke’s personal bank account struck by identity theft
By Brett Zongker and Nafeesa Syeed, Associated Press Writers

WASHINGTON – No one is safe from identity theft, not even the chairman of the Federal Reserve.

Ben Bernanke’s personal checking account became entangled in an elaborate identity-theft scheme after his wife Anna’s purse was stolen last August at a Capitol Hill Starbucks. According to a District of Columbia police report, it contained her Social Security card, checkbook, credit cards and IDs.

The complete story..

More than 300 organizations, including Public Citizen, Church World Service, the Indigenous Environmental Network, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, and many others have joined the Center for Biological Diversity in a letter to the Senate asking for a strong global warming bill.

Your enthusiasm indicates that, like us, you believe this is the most important bill of our time — and you believe that only a strong climate bill can help us avoid catastrophic global warming. Now we need your help making sure your senator takes note of our letter.

As you read this email, the Senate is finishing up work on a companion bill to the deeply flawed House legislation on global warming that is slated to be introduced in September when the Senate returns from recess. Our time to act is now.

During the week of August 31, 2009, people across the country will be personally delivering our letter to the local offices of their senators. We need your help to make as big an impact as we possibly can.

Will you hand-deliver our letter?
Email Rose Braz, our climate campaign coordinator, at rbraz@biologicaldiversity.org for more information.

Click here for more ways to take action.

Please take action by September 7, 2009.

Donate now to support our work.

Coal-fired power plant photo (c) Phillip J. Redman.

The Center for Biological Diversity sends out newsletters and action alerts through DemocracyinAction.org

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Tucson, AZ 85702
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Keep your eye on the weather maps – Looks like a storm could be developing in the Atlantic.

Visit Storm Pulse to see a what has the weather people stirring.
http://www.stormpulse.com/

Get ready homeowners: County and most cities in Broward propose tax hikes
By Scott Wyman  South Florida Sun Sentinel

FORT LAUDERDALE – Twenty-six of 31 cities, as well as Broward County government, both hospital districts and the local children services agency, are looking at raising tax rates and fees on property owners this year.

“I don’t ever remember rate increases this high,” Property Appraiser Lori Parrish said.

The Complete Story…

The idea of using solar energy to power portions or your whole home, is a great idea for South Florida due to the amount of sun we get, but the cost of doing so has prevented most people to try. Now there is a more affordable solution that actually has a payback period that can justify the cost and will help cut pollution on a very large scale.

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By Seth Borenstein, Associated Press

WASHINGTON — NASA is charged with spotting most of the asteroids that pose a threat to Earth but does not have the money to complete the job, a U.S. government report says.

That is because even though Congress assigned the space agency that mission four years ago, it never gave NASA the money to build the necessary telescopes, according to the report released Wednesday by the National Academy of Sciences.

The complete story….

You think healthcare will matter if one of these larger Rocks hits the planet!

Florida may gut insurance discounts for hurricane shutters
By Beatrice E. Garcia The Miami Herald
August 10, 2009

Those who fortified their homes might soon take a direct hit — not from a storm, but from the people who insure them against one

Insurers, led by State Farm Florida, are complaining that the discounts for installing shutters and other protections have become so popular that they are undercutting the industry’s bottom line.

The Complete Story…

Personal Note:

Legislature agreed to review how the discounts are tallied. The first public hearing is Wednesday in Tallahassee.

I would contact your state representatives before we all suffer – give your opinion – if you spent your hard earned money to follow the guidelines of the State to reinforce your home – why should you be penalized by the insurance companies – it’s one thing being fair, it is quite another to allow a company that pulled it’s home insurance off the market after Hurricane Andrew to dictate anything to Florida Homeowners!

To locate your representatives visit:
Online Sunshine – the official Internet Site of the Florida Legislature
http://www.leg.state.fl.us/

Create your birth chart step by step to reveal the pattern of energy influences from the earth, planets and stars on the day you were born.

Cycles, elements, ascendants, compatibility and conflict will be discussed. In this fun class you will gain deep insight  and new perspective into how you navigate in the world.

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Date:  August 22, 2009

Time:  from 12:30 – 2:00 pm

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$20.00 day of class

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7071 W. Commercial Blvd. 2C, Tamarac 33319
954 721-7252
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Call 954 721-7252 for more information