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• California budget stalemate continues over local funding.

  - 2004-07-15

  By Ann E. Marimow, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 15--SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- The state budget stalemate continued Wednesday, with impatient legislators and local government leaders sparring over the funding issue that has kept them from a new...

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• Treasury Secretary Visits San Jose, Calif., Area.

  - 2004-06-18

  By Chris O'Brien, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 18--A one-day spin through Silicon Valley on Thursday left U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow convinced that the economic recovery has spread to this high-tech region. Snow...

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• California's Proposition 56: Easing Gridlock or Giving Democrats Control?

  - 2004-02-23

  By Andrew LaMar, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 23--SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Should Democrats completely control whether the Legislature passes a state budget or tax increases? That's essentially the question presented by Proposition 56, an ...

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• Clinton Pushes Private Philanthropy at Family Foundation Conference.

  - 2004-02-14

  By John Boudreau, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 14--NEW YORK -- Former President Clinton has long been an advocate of nonprofits, otherwise known as nongovernment organizations or NGOs. But during a speech Monday at the...

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• Alternative Minimum Tax Bedevils Middle-Class Taxpayers.

  - 2004-02-08

  By Mark Schwanhausser, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 8--What is taxpayer enemy No. 1? The watchdog arm of the Internal Revenue Service says it's the Alternative Minimum Tax -- the shadow tax on the so-called rich....

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• California Assembly's Marathon Session Yields Budget Still Short $8 Billion.

  - 2003-07-30

  San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 30--SACRAMENTO, Calif.--After a record round-the-clock session, the state Assembly pushed through a budget Tuesday that ended a monthlong stalemate but leaves California with an almost $8 billion deficit. Passage...

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• Fee Hikes Offer Option to Adding Taxes to Close California's Budget Gap.

  - 2003-07-20

  By Ann E. Marimow, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 20--SACRAMENTO, Calif.--Republican resolve to resist new taxes could lead to a budget without sales or income tax increases. But Californians will probably pay more to camp at state...

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• Democrats in California's Legislature Try to Woo Republican Budget Votes.

  - 2003-07-08

  By Ann E. Marimow, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 8--SACRAMENTO, Calif.--Buried under a pile of papers on state Sen. Bruce McPherson's desk on the fourth floor of the Capitol is a handwritten note from a Democratic colleague:...

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• Silicon Valley Companies Push for Tax Break on Offshore Profits.

  - 2003-04-07

  By Heather Fleming Phillips, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 7--WASHINGTON--Silicon Valley companies are lobbying to get a piece of the tax-cut pie that's being divvied up in Congress over the next several weeks: They're pushing for a...

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• Three California Counties File Suit, Opposing Property Tax Refunds.

  - 2002-09-21

  By Karen de Sa, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 21--The economic toll of Sept. 11 should not entitle airline and travel-related companies to millions of dollars in local property tax refunds in California, three Bay Area counties...

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