Article: California Same-Sex Marriage Ban Losing; Measures to Restrict Abortion for Minors, Reform Redistricting Fail to Reach 50 Percent; Obama's Lead Over McCain Grows to 23 Points as Voters' Fears About Economy Deepen.(Survey)

Article: BGE rates set to increase by 50 percent today; ...
The Washington Times;  June 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Co. rates are to increase by 50 percent today, despite a campaign pledge from ... the total rate increase of 72.5 percent over last year "falls short of ... last year campaigned against the 50 percent rate increase taking effect today ...

Article: Coatesville Hit By Spate Of Arsons Elderly Couple Face Kidnapping ...
Sunday News Lancaster, PA;  January 4, 2009 ;     638 words ... ... tolls on the Pennsylvania Turnpike are increasing 25 percent today. The new rates became effective at 12:01 a.m ... expects to begin increasing tolls every year, by about 3 percent annually. A man has been killed in a western Pennsylvania ...

Article: Firms making s-l-o-w progress on diversity in hiring: total rises ...
Los Angeles Business Journal;  January 29, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... But it is slow going. In 1993, minorities accounted for less than 3 percent of the nation's lawyers, women about 12 percent. Today, minorities make up 10 percent of the total, women about one-third. There's pressure to change the ...

Article: High-class marketing for low-income housing: KSI Management's ...
Units;  April 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... KSI's portfolio-wide occupancy rate from 93 percent two years ago to 97 percent today. "One Rockville, Md., community that had never topped 90 percent occupancy reached 100 percent in only six months ...

Article: Celtics shooting at 36 percent today
The Boston Globe;  May 18, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... they don't have the worst record; Vancouver again has that distinction.) Thus, their chances increase to more than 36 percent. That's about what Todd Day shoots from the field, but the Celtics are hoping that, unlike Day, they hit their target ...

Article: SALES TAX DROPS TO 4 PERCENT TODAY.(News)
The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY);  June 1, 2005 ;     445 words ... ... dropped by a quarter of a percentage point - from 4.25 percent to 4 percent - at 12:01 a.m. today. (The rest of the sales ... approved the temporary increase in the sales tax - from 4 percent to 4.25 percent - in 2003, over Gov. George Pataki ...

Article: Nevada's modified payroll tax drops to 0.65 percent ...
Las Vegas Review-Journal (Las Vegas, NV);  July 1, 2004 ;     639 words ... ... Legislature, is being reduced to 0.65 percent effective today. The Legislature imposed ... wages paid by employers at a rate of 0.7 percent of gross wages paid during a calendar ... said the tax rate reduction to 0.65 percent will result in a decrease of about $900 ...