Q&A with Gov.-elect Jim Pillen: Taxes, school finance top legislative priority list

LINCOLN — Nebraska Gov.-elect Jim Pillen says he wants to work with the Legislature to knock some sense into the state’s property taxes, income taxes and school finance.

Pillen, who takes office Jan. 5, detailed the top priorities for his first legislative session during a Dec. 21 interview with the Nebraska Examiner in his transition office at the Capitol. 

The University of Nebraska regent and Columbus-area hog operator said he has been preparing his first budget proposal since defeating Democrat Carol Blood in November. 

The Examiner asked him about how he plans to approach a number of issues he campaigned

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Ex-OPM secretary, and incoming finance director in East Hartford, owed $2,300 in taxes

Mar. 4—EAST HARTFORD — Melissa McCaw, who not long ago stepped down as secretary of the point out price range office environment to turn out to be the town’s new finance director, was overdue in shelling out $2,310 in home taxes to the town of Middletown, records indicate.

Middletown tax documents showed this week that McCaw owed $1,677.66 on a car or truck registered in her identify in that city, a 2019 Infiniti QX80 Lux assessed at $34,980. The two installments, which had been $769.57 each, have been owing July 1, 2021, and Jan. 1, 2022. The past owing bill

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