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......the people have spoken........let the powers that be figure out ANOTHER way to fund law enforcement......foresight was not adequate on the part of our city fathers........we know the issue isn't going away.......hopefully everybody won't get reassessed for higher property taxes now........there will be no 40% outside help on that......

Has anyone seen a tiger in the streets of Independence?

Great story by Jeff Martin!!!   XOX

Well they tell me one person came out to hear the city talk about why we need to increase our sales tax. They paid X amount of people over time to do this and people don't appear that they care to hear about it.  With one more meeting to go at  Blue Ridge Blvd. Christian Church till the vote. It looks like the voters don't know about the meetings or that they have made their minds up.

 Monday I was in training to work at the polls. This is what we learned. We are expecting a very low voter turn out. We will only have 54 Polling places to vote instead of the 100 Polling places we normaly have. When I raised my hand and asked why will we have such a low turn out our instructor informed us because it's a one ballet issue and because that none of the papers are reporting on it. I hope there is not to much confusion finding where to vote.

During the recent Presidential campaign, one of Obama's promises was a tax credt for businesses hiring new employees. That has been withdrawn because the IRS claims they have no way of IDing new employees. This tax credit idea is a key part of Missouri's Enhanced Enterprise Zone (EZZ) act. I wonder, if the IRS can't identify a new hire, how does the State of Missouri accomplish the feat? Maybe the State tax people need to give the IRS some lessons?