Elections

A proposed constitutional amendment allowing the legislature to determine how local revenue lost due to property tax exemptions is reimbursed was defeated.

Statewide ballot measures, including one before voters in this week's primary, would decrease or even eliminate certain property tax revenue for public schools.

Revenue from the 0.4% tax would be earmarked for debt service and operating funding for a jail to replace the county's troubled detention facility.

Missouri voters on Tuesday soundly rejected Amendment 5, which would have eliminated the state income tax and given lawmakers latitude to raise other taxes.

The state's voters will be weighing more than a dozen statewide bond and tax measures come November.

The appointment of Don Huffines, a former state senator who won the March 3 Republican primary election for comptroller, takes effect Aug. 1.

Republican Spencer Pratt's second-place election-night figures have dropped behind those of City Councilwoman Nithya Raman as more votes are counted in L.A.

Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza announced her candidacy for mayor of Chicago last week, pledging "to respect the taxpayer dollar and stretch its value."

California Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis, a Democrat, was the lead vote-getter in preliminary results with 1,616,720 votes or 34.3%.

Actions this legislative session include a ballot measure to tighten caps on property assessment growth and allowing bond issuance for charter schools.

Voters rejected a 3% hotel tax increase Tuesday in Springfield, Missouri. They had already rejected a similar measure in November.

The initiative would create a bond-funded program to help middle-class homebuyers afford a downpayment.

Addison is the sixth of Dallas Area Rapid Transit's 13 member cities where voters will decide in May whether to drop out of the agency.

Public transit emerged as an $11 billion winner in the 2025 elections as voters in five states approved measures to pour money into the sector.

City and state law mean it's unlikely that Mamdani will be able to enact the parts of his agenda that would have major impacts on the city's credit. 

Mikie Sherrill in New Jersey and Abigail Spanberger in Virginia both campaigned for governor on pocketbook issues — lowering costs, expanding child care and restoring stability after months of economic turbulence and a government shutdown that's stretched past five weeks.

As more states move towards resetting their Congressional districts questions arise over how redistricting will affect the balance of power and eventually tax policy.

California's largest health workers union sent ballot language to state Attorney General Rob Bonta in an effort to add a wealth tax proposal to the November 2026 ballot.

The State Bond Commission approved 21 municipal entities' elections on tax increases for infrastructure projects, with the increases possibly supporting bonds.

An Emerson College poll showed Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis in seventh place in the crowded governor's race as she made the announcement Friday.