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Huntington Common Council passes service fee
Huntington Political Examiner ^ | 05/25/2010 | Mark Shoffner

Posted on 05/26/2010 5:58:31 AM PDT by mshoffner

Last year, Huntington Indiana's Mayor Steve Updike started laying off workers and this year changed trash pick up to bi weekly because of a budget shortfall. He then went on to propose a service fee for the citizens of Huntington. He has since brought some emergency workers back and started weekly trash pick up. That leaves the service fee.....

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: council; fee; shortfall; trash

1 posted on 05/26/2010 5:58:32 AM PDT by mshoffner
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To: mshoffner

I never knew Huntington, Indiana was such an awesome place to warrant multiple breaking news threads per week.


2 posted on 05/26/2010 6:12:02 AM PDT by Carpe Cerevisi
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To: Carpe Cerevisi

I’m a Huntington reporter. I do have other areas I write about.


3 posted on 05/26/2010 6:19:49 AM PDT by mshoffner
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To: mshoffner

I understand...I’m actually a native from the Huntington a little further east (and it ain’t NY).


4 posted on 05/26/2010 6:25:06 AM PDT by Carpe Cerevisi
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To: mshoffner

All news is local. I like knowing what’s happening in the world and the world consists of much more than NYC, LA, London etc.

Thanks for posting.


5 posted on 05/26/2010 8:45:04 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (No Romney,No Mark Kirk (Illinois), not now, not ever!)
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