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The little white schoolhouse has stood sentinel over Mountain Brook since 1922, though a myriad of safety concerns now bars the building from use. Cracks zigzag through the concrete foundation.
The Village Voice review of painter Dianna Settles exhibition, “Enemy of the Century,” notes its blend of politics and human-scale utopias.
Many Texas homeowners don’t know they can reduce their property taxes by filing a simple form. Here’s everything you need to ...
Older Texans and those with disabilities would receive an additional $60,000 exemption, up from $10,000, under another bill ...
The Texas Legislature is poised to increase the state’s homestead exemption by at least $40,000 for homeowners, effectively lowering school taxes for property owners on their primary residence.
On Tuesday, the Texas House unanimously passed a bill to raise the state’s homestead exemption from $100,000 to $140,000. The ...
There’s a new Landry serving in the Louisiana House of Representatives. Terry Landry Jr. (D-Baton Rouge) was sworn in at the ...
This was troubling because under homestead laws, Ottawa regarded all Canadian land as Crown property until such time as a settler registered his holdings and applied for a patent or deed. Because they ...