Atown, if the school causes your property values to increase, your taxes will also increase. In an area with a declining population having increased property values is good for only the tax man. This big deal school building project is a bad deal for Atown residents.
Drive around and look at all of these new schools; they are taj mahals of excess. A building does not educate students but the teacher's union is not being reigned in and the school systems are sadly lacking. The education process is not about mega-buildings and the maintenance costs of these buildings will be massive.
Looks like another Obama payoff to the unions, just like his disastrous Cash-For-Clunkers, Wind Energy "Loans", $50 billion bailout program, 144 czars that answer not to the taxpayers but to only him, etc.. The incompetent & corrupt Chairman Obama has got to go.
That should be two very nice school buildings for k-5 but what was wrong with the current building? Have the maintenance costs been calculated yet? Will the levy cover that too or will more property taxes and levies be needed? The Valley is losing population so why was this project required?
unionforever you are wrong; you've bought the Obama spin. Romney and other top income earners pay more than 36% when all of their taxes are figured but their other taxes (capital gains, etc) cause a reduction in their personal income tax. These people pay plenty - far more than your pittance and they (and only they) produce the jobs that pay more taxes (government jobs consume taxes). Do not buy into the class warfare; these folks pay far more than their fair share. The top 10% pay virtually all of the country's taxes and the bottom 47% pay zero. Attack the super wealthy (like England did with their prohibitive tax rates) and they simply take their money and leave. Kill the golden goose and you go hungry.
Taxes are not the way out of our budget problem; employment is. Until we get rid of Obama and his anti-business, anti-capitalism agenda, we will sink ever deeply into debt; especially to communist China. Obama is the problem; he's got to go.
peacelover; yes, Obamaphiles really are that dumb. Somehow they approve of ever-increasing national debt, higher unemployment, more people on welfare/food stamps/assistance, unbridled influx of illegals, a moribund economy, lower standard of living, higher gas prices, czars, 40,000 more IRS agents, increased government regulation of small business, huge EPA increases, inept foreign policy, taxpayer funded date nights involving AirForce 1; social security heading into bankruptcy, union payoffs, class warfare, concealed personal history, racist mentors (Rev Wright, Louis Farrakhan), marxist backers (Bill Ayers, George Soros), sealed college transcripts; ...need I continue?
Rick Santorum and Michele Bachman are both a breath of fresh air.
Politically correct compassion towards Muslims is a huge mistake.These people kill their daughters for the disgrace of them talking to a guy, decapitate those that they consider enemies, and glorify death in the name of Allah. Freedom of religion is one thing but Muslims need to be expelled from our country; they are not fit to be here.
mauzy, we all know that you are a tough guy; your personal attacks speak legions about what a big man you are. Hell, you may even be tough enough to shoot elderly white people in the church parking lot. I laugh at jerkoffs like you. Big mouth, low-IQ, the-world-owes-me losers. Jamail may have been a good guy but the house was owned by him, underage alcohol consumption was involved, and he hosted the party. He screwed up; it cost him his life, 11 others gunshot injuries, YSU a black eye, Youngstown another bad news report, and the taxpayers many thousands of dollars. BTW, my last name is Clark; I am in the phone book; stop on by and maybe I can help with your attitude issues.
Austintown readies $50 million schools project
Atown, if the school causes your property values to increase, your taxes will also increase. In an area with a declining population having increased property values is good for only the tax man. This big deal school building project is a bad deal for Atown residents.
Drive around and look at all of these new schools; they are taj mahals of excess. A building does not educate students but the teacher's union is not being reigned in and the school systems are sadly lacking. The education process is not about mega-buildings and the maintenance costs of these buildings will be massive.
Looks like another Obama payoff to the unions, just like his disastrous Cash-For-Clunkers, Wind Energy "Loans", $50 billion bailout program, 144 czars that answer not to the taxpayers but to only him, etc.. The incompetent & corrupt Chairman Obama has got to go.
February 14, 2012 at 8:53 a.m. permalink suggest removal
Austintown readies $50 million schools project
That should be two very nice school buildings for k-5 but what was wrong with the current building? Have the maintenance costs been calculated yet? Will the levy cover that too or will more property taxes and levies be needed? The Valley is losing population so why was this project required?
February 14, 2012 at 6:52 a.m. permalink suggest removal
Officials seek clues in death of Houston
I don't think an advanced degree in forensics is needed to determine what killed Whitney Houston...
February 13, 2012 at 9:06 a.m. permalink suggest removal
The fighting begins as Obama’s 2013 budget heads to Congress
unionforever you are wrong; you've bought the Obama spin. Romney and other top income earners pay more than 36% when all of their taxes are figured but their other taxes (capital gains, etc) cause a reduction in their personal income tax. These people pay plenty - far more than your pittance and they (and only they) produce the jobs that pay more taxes (government jobs consume taxes). Do not buy into the class warfare; these folks pay far more than their fair share. The top 10% pay virtually all of the country's taxes and the bottom 47% pay zero. Attack the super wealthy (like England did with their prohibitive tax rates) and they simply take their money and leave. Kill the golden goose and you go hungry.
Taxes are not the way out of our budget problem; employment is. Until we get rid of Obama and his anti-business, anti-capitalism agenda, we will sink ever deeply into debt; especially to communist China. Obama is the problem; he's got to go.
February 13, 2012 at 6:58 a.m. permalink suggest removal
Santorum victor in tonight's primaries
peacelover; yes, Obamaphiles really are that dumb. Somehow they approve of ever-increasing national debt, higher unemployment, more people on welfare/food stamps/assistance, unbridled influx of illegals, a moribund economy, lower standard of living, higher gas prices, czars, 40,000 more IRS agents, increased government regulation of small business, huge EPA increases, inept foreign policy, taxpayer funded date nights involving AirForce 1; social security heading into bankruptcy, union payoffs, class warfare, concealed personal history, racist mentors (Rev Wright, Louis Farrakhan), marxist backers (Bill Ayers, George Soros), sealed college transcripts; ...need I continue?
Rick Santorum and Michele Bachman are both a breath of fresh air.
February 8, 2012 at 8:48 a.m. permalink suggest removal
Woman sentenced in fight that injured Youngstown cop
ghetto scum.
February 8, 2012 at 6:23 a.m. permalink suggest removal
Football fans fraternize for frenzied Super Bowl XLVI Eyes on game, fun
Angelo Petrolla can eat a couple hundred pounds of wings all by himself and that's if the lovely Heather is not involved.
February 6, 2012 at 7:08 a.m. permalink suggest removal
Eddie DeBartolo Jr. does not make Hall of Fame
This gotta be a joke; was JJ Cafaro nominated too?
February 5, 2012 at 12:28 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Woman charged in beheading plot appears in court
Politically correct compassion towards Muslims is a huge mistake.These people kill their daughters for the disgrace of them talking to a guy, decapitate those that they consider enemies, and glorify death in the name of Allah. Freedom of religion is one thing but Muslims need to be expelled from our country; they are not fit to be here.
February 3, 2012 at 6:29 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Jamail Johnson's family is yearning for justice and closure
mauzy, we all know that you are a tough guy; your personal attacks speak legions about what a big man you are. Hell, you may even be tough enough to shoot elderly white people in the church parking lot. I laugh at jerkoffs like you. Big mouth, low-IQ, the-world-owes-me losers. Jamail may have been a good guy but the house was owned by him, underage alcohol consumption was involved, and he hosted the party. He screwed up; it cost him his life, 11 others gunshot injuries, YSU a black eye, Youngstown another bad news report, and the taxpayers many thousands of dollars.
BTW, my last name is Clark; I am in the phone book; stop on by and maybe I can help with your attitude issues.
February 3, 2012 at 9:18 a.m. permalink suggest removal