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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Kernan F. King, the Republican candidate for state general treasurer, up until Friday led Florida officials to believe he was a legal resident of that state, qualifying him for a tax break on the home he owns in Sarasota County, according to a county official.
"When we talked to him in March, he told us Florida was his permanent residence," William C. Furst, the county property appraiser, said in a telephone interview Friday. As property appraiser, a job similar to tax assessor in Rhode Island, Furst oversees homestead exemptions, a tax break available only on someone's primary residence.
"I'm a Rhode Island boy," King said in an interview Friday. He grew up in Providence, graduated from La Salle Academy and spent most of his career in insurance, ret...
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Updated 5:55 p.m.: Added more information about Microsoft’s connections to the companies that are part of the review.
Google said Friday that the Texas attorney general, Greg Abbott, is conducting an antitrust review of its search business.
The examination involves the fairness of Google search results, a concept called search neutrality. Some companies worry Google has the power to discriminate against them by lowering their links in search results or charging higher fees for their paid search ads.
In a company blog post, Don Harrison, Google’s deputy general counsel, said that the company’s priority was to “provide the most useful, relevant search results and ads for users.”
“Given that not every Web site...
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clueless on 16 Jul 2009 at 3:28 pm #
Eelyn Kok is a bit too mature to pair up with DYT and ZZH. If the 1st male lead is Qi Yu Wu, the pairing would be a perfect match lor. FX really mess up everything and left a very bad impression unless she really got a good valid reason such as...
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