I just learned via local talk radio that an increase in our city property taxes of 43% has been rescinded- due to massive, angry citizen turnout at last night's city commission meeting.
Even more signifigant than the numbers of people ( witnesses say they were "swamped..." ) who came to protest was the fact that prior meetings rarely had a single citizen show up.
On another local issue, I have heard repeated, angry ( angry? No, furious! ) calls to "axe the head of the local school board..."
This is signifigant because the school board budget drives the county budget- it's the single biggest drain on taxes ( to explain, we live in the city, which is, naturally in the county, and we get double-taxed... both the city & county levy property taxes. Damn them! )-- and we have all the usual school troubles.
The head of the local school board has spent the last few years building new ( many claim un-needed ) schools, calling for ever-more-tax-money, and claiming "he works for the Children, not the school board..." Which, aside from the smarmy "For The Children" nonsense, he literally does work for the board, and us taxpayers. We hire them, with our votes. We pay them with our money. They need to be held accountable.
Anyway loads of irate citizens are calling for his head, in one way or another.