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Texas seniors are getting a huge property tax break. Everyone else is picking up the tab. (opens the original)
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These days, property taxes are just about the only thing Jane Lindsley is saving money on. For the 72-year-old, the cost of everything — from gas and groceries to homeowners insurance and healthcare — have gone up. So it was a welcome surprise when Lindsley, a retired bookkeeper, received her tax bill last fall to find the property taxes on her home in an unincorporated part of Hays County had shrunk by more than 40%. The chief reason: the amount in school property taxes she owed fell to $0. “I
Texas seniors are getting a huge property tax break. Everyone else is picking up the tab | Houston Public Media (opens the original)
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This article first appeared on The Texas Tribune. These days, property taxes are just about the only thing Jane Lindsley is saving money on. For the 72-year-old, the cost of everything — from gas and groceries to homeowners insurance and healthcare — have gone up. So it was a welcome surprise when Lindsley, a retired bookkeeper, received her tax bill last fall to find the property taxes on her home in an unincorporated part of Hays County had shrunk by more than 40%. The chief reason: the amount
Texas seniors benefit the most from homestead exemptions, study says (opens the original)
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These days, property taxes are just about the only thing Jane Lindsley is saving money on. For the 72-year-old, the cost of everything — from gas and groceries to homeowners insurance and healthcare — have gone up. So it was a welcome surprise when Lindsley, a retired bookkeeper, received her tax bill last fall to find the property taxes on her home in an unincorporated part of Hays County had shrunk by more than 40%. The chief reason: the amount in school property taxes she owed fell to $0. “I
Texas seniors are getting a huge property tax break. Everyone else is picking up the tab. (opens the original)
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These days, property taxes are just about the only thing Jane Lindsley is saving money on. For the 72-year-old, the cost of everything — from gas and groceries to homeowners insurance and healthcare — have gone up. So it was a welcome surprise when Lindsley, a retired bookkeeper, received her tax bill last fall to find the property taxes on her home in an unincorporated part of Hays County had shrunk by more than 40%. The chief reason: the amount in school property taxes she owed fell to $0. “I
Muslims in Texas are disillusioned as GOP ramps up anti-Islam rhetoric (opens the original)
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Mohamed Hussein, a self-identified conservative and practicing Muslim, went to the Texas Republican convention this year seeking common ground. Instead, during a panel discussion about Judeo-Christian values, he was told to convert to Christianity — or leave the country. The encounter left Hussein disillusioned with the current Texas Republican Party, he said during a panel discussion at the Texas Tribune Festival Thursday, and wondering, though he identifies as a conservative, whether he still
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