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Maine Nonprofits Say Property Tax Proposal Would Jeopardize Programs, Services

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Paul LePage submitted a proposed budget including a property tax for certain nonprofits. Last year, before releasing his biennial budget proposal, Maine Gov. Under the plan, such organizations would pay taxes on the portion of the property’s value above that amount at 50 percent of the local community’s property tax rate.

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Counseling Groups Partner to Fight Bill They Say Allows For Discrimination

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The American Counseling Association has partnered with other organizations to oppose a Tennessee bill they say would permit discrimination against LGBT people based on a service provider’s personal beliefs. The Tennessee bill is among many that associations, along with corporations, have recently spoken out about.

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Piggybacking Off a More Established Brand

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When my husband’s grandfather settled on the outskirts of Nashville, Tennessee, in the late 1960s, he didn’t have a lot of money. So, my husband’s grandfather proposed a trade, and that’s how the dentist came to own a good horse, and my husband’s grandfather came to own a good set of dentures. He needed dentures—a full set of them.

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The Fight to Fill Out the Periodic Table

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IUPAC, the nongovernmental entity that focuses on organizing and determining standards in chemistry, announced that four new elements—113, 115, 117, and 118—had been discovered by scientific teams working in Japan, Russia, and the United States.

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Music Industry Groups Try to Hit the Right Note With Tax Credits

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” But films aren’t the only cultural works being produced by New York’s creative class, and that’s where the proposed Empire State Music Production Tax Credit bill comes in. New York Is Music , a coalition of music industry organizations, is working with Lentol to draft and advocate for the measure.