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St. George, UT

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ST. GEORGE – Municipalities in Southern Utah are facing a critical lack of money for road maintenance, and officials are hoping voters will approve a tax increase to solve the problem…

More info at http://www.stgeorgeutah.com/news/archive/2015/06/18/jla-cities-face-road-funding-crisis-seek-ballot-initiative-for-transportation-tax/#.VYQr7flViko

Cobb County, GA

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A connection exists between Cobb County’s snatching of the Atlanta Braves from their current home across the Chattahoochee River, and that county’s current debate over mass transit…

More info at http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2015/06/17/the-connection-between-the-braves-move-to-cobb-and-a-debate-over-mass-transit/

Wake County, NC

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The N.C. Senate voted unanimously Wednesday to remove a budget provision that would have prevented Wake County from having a half-cent sales tax referendum to pay for transit…

More info at http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/politics-columns-blogs/under-the-dome/article24791878.html

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New taxes or fees may be coming down on Californians to repair highways, roads and bridges…

More info at http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/news/2015/06/17/ways-that-californians-might-be-taxed-under-new.html

Santa Clara County, CA

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More than two-thirds of Santa Clara County voters would support a 30-year half-cent transportation sales tax on the November 2016 ballot that would touch commuters in every part of the South Bay in cars, trains and buses as well as kids biking or walking to school…

More info at http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/government-and-politics/20150617/new-transportation-sales-tax-could-get-two-thirds-support-in-santa-clara-county

Released by The Salt Lake Tribune

Transportation projects may be hogging more than their fair share of state sales-tax money, so legislators discussed Wednesday how to shift money to other needs such as schools or a new prison…

More info at http://www.sltrib.com/home/2636707-155/utah-lawmakers-talk-of-shifting-transportation

Wake County, NC

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In other legislative news, the state Senate took a break from hating on the queers and telling chicks what to do with their uteruses to pat themselves on the back in advance for cutting income taxes (again!) and redistributing sales tax revenues to prop up the small, flailing rural counties they come from. This, of course, comes at the expense of metros like Raleigh and Durham—you know, the places that actually create jobs and lure new residents…

More info at http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/wake-county-commissioners-flout-state-invest-in-schools/Content?oid=4506102

Atlanta, GA

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As Georgia takes baby steps toward embracing mass transit, the binary options of pro-transit and anti-transit aren’t going to be enough, if they ever were. The more important questions are going to concern a) what kind of transit, b) where and c) for what purpose…

More info at http://kylewingfield.blog.ajc.com/2015/06/16/getting-transit-right-is-more-important-than-just-getting-it-at-all/

Hillsborough County, FL

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Officials in Hillsborough County, Florida, are optimistic about the prospects for a one-half-cent sales tax increase for transportation they intend to submit for voter approval in November…

More info at http://nextcity.org/daily/entry/tampa-sales-tax-rail-smallest-city-streetcar-hiroshima-memorial-tram

Released by The Salt Lake Tribune

The Utah Transit Authority is in serious danger of being stuck on a fiscal roundabout. The rest of us would be trapped with it…

More info at http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/2626687-155/editorial-transit-tax-hike-will-need