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  1. Allen

    Ive got a theory---

    Snow, the air pollution caused by the train derailment some five months ago has been diluted and rained down on the ground long ago. For goodness sake, remember our friendly balloons from China took only a few days to blow across our country. An untethered balloon would probably have...
  2. Allen

    Breakfast ideas please

    While that sounds good to you and I, you gonna to supply Davey with the kids that don't balk at onions, peppers, and tomatoes for breakfast?
  3. Allen

    Breakfast ideas please

    French toast is at least as good of an option as pancakes/waffles when it comes to being reheated the next day.
  4. Allen

    CORPS must pay landowners

    Projects like this usually have a Federal and local cost-share agreement. Often the State steps in and picks up a portion of the local cost-share, leaving the protected community responsible for something between 20 and 30 percent of the total cost.
  5. Allen

    Property Tax Petition

    There are a number of states with a Homestead Exemption of sorts, and yes you usually need to be 65 and older to qualify from what I've read.
  6. Allen

    Property Tax Petition

    There are zero states that have no property tax.
  7. Allen

    Property Tax Petition

    The State has been already doing this for several years. Just another pass my tax bill onto someone else scheme.
  8. Allen

    Property Tax Petition

    Has anyone even seen the draft sent to the SOS yet? Who is drafting it?
  9. Allen

    CORPS must pay landowners

    What a terrible precedent! Who among us really believes we have given the Corps the ability to control Mother Nature to such an extent? This decision would suggest we now have a fundamental misunderstanding of the tools provided by the taxpayers and the playbook known as the Master Manual...
  10. Allen

    Property Tax Petition

    I know it's been explored elsewhere, thinking here of lake homes and cabins in particular where they explored it in MN at one time, but I don't know if it ever got passed. It'd be ripe for court challenges. Perhaps this is why most states have gone the route of Homestead Property Tax breaks...
  11. Allen

    Property Tax Petition

    Right, just another great example of social wealth redistribution by our "conservative" Republican legislature. I would prefer for the govt to be blind to our social standing, including when it comes to taxes. Like I said, I seem to get the shaft every damn time they re-engineer something...
  12. Allen

    Property Tax Petition

    If you don't include every expense in the cost of ownership when you buy something, you should probably expect to feel a little pain in the after effects. So, yes...the property tax code should certainly be a consideration. I know of areas in Bismarck where their total property tax bill is...
  13. Allen

    Property Tax Petition

    I agree, there are sad stories like this every year. Back in the early 90s I answered an ad for a desk/table that was for sale by an elderly gent in Grand Forks. He was a retired utilities company employee living on a fixed pension that had no cost of living allowance built into it. 20-some...
  14. Allen

    Property Tax Petition

    And que the fight in the legislature about who is going to receive the proceeds from said state sales tax. Our legislature struggles to get their job done in the current allotted time. Who is going to be the almighty decider of who gets how much money? No way rural ND stands a chance under...
  15. Allen

    Property Tax Petition

    IMHOl, the closest widespread radical change I can compare this to is Prohibition. I doubt many thought there would be such widespread and negative consequences to Prohibition, and I suspect many who were in favor of it would have changed their minds if they had had the foresight to the...
  16. Allen

    Property Tax Petition

    I think we agree on the public should be more involved. But a system that's unused isn't necessarily broken. There were some very bright people involved in setting up our system going all the way back to the Revolutionary War. I am not convinced we have the same level of public involvement as...
  17. Allen

    Property Tax Petition

    It's because I think we would be delusional to think scrambling of this egg would lead to anything more acceptable than what is already in place, even if we think the status quo is unacceptable. I'm not inclined to think a monthly bill from my rural firefighting dept, the county roads dept...
  18. Allen

    Property Tax Petition

    "let them figure it out" kind of reminds me of boot camp where the Drill Instructor would come in after you've just cleaned the squad bay and they'd tear shit apart just so you'd have to clean everything all over again. In this case it would appear the electorate is the drill instructor...
  19. Allen

    First Fawn

    Usually, I run across a couple sets of fawns at my place by now. I did see a number of deer beds while out spraying weeds the other day, so I'm just assuming the does have their fawns tucked away nicely in some of the near nipple high grass this year.
  20. Allen

    Gutters

    Both are on purlins, but I've been in a friends out building with a metal roof on sheathing and it was only modestly quieter during a similar downpour.

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