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Senior tax freeze passes in North Richland Hills and Watauga, Texas.
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By John Kirsch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Sep. 12--North Richland Hills and Watauga residents voted Saturday to cap city property taxes for older and disabled taxpayers.
Watauga voters overwhelmingly approved the freeze, 83.9 percent to 16.1 percent.
A record 14 percent of North Richland Hills voters cast ballots in the election. The freeze passed with 68.6 percent of the vote, with 3,698 in favor and 1,691, or 31.4 percent, against, according to results announced Saturday evening by city spokeswoman ...
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ASK THE GLOBE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...friendship, books." It was attributed to J. Thomson. Who is J. Thomson, and where can I find out more about this person? C.B., Chelmsford A. James Thomson (1700-1748) was a Scottish poet and contemporary of literary...
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Comment: Our country and our culture
Magazine article from: The Hudson Review
; ...POEM SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF SIR ISAAC NEWTON," James Thomson (1700-1748) imagines the apotheosis of the scientist amid...Washington, D.C., I found myself thinking of James Thomson. Although his poetic idiom is antiquated, Thomson...
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Gadfly - From froth blowers to hornswogglers
Newspaper article from: The Northern Echo
; ...elegant sufficiency? was coined by the Scottish poet James Thomson (1700-1748) though it is by no means his great claim to fame. Thomson, and not many people may know this, also wrote...
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A Time to Every Purpose: The Four Seasons in American Culture.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Antioch Review
; ...American visual and literary arts, Kammen first sketches their European background. Works like The Seasons by James Thomson (1700-1748) "enjoyed considerable popularity in the young republic" but lost favor as the new nation grew less interested...
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Forgotten birthday celebrations for genius behind 'Rule Britannia'
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; ...years. But even Thomson's best known...later this year, Thomson's works and style...biographer, Professor James Sambrook, who believes Thomson should command...after his death in 1748. Fted by Frederick...on 11 September 1700 in the Borders...
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The List
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...Wallace at Stirling Bridge. 1700: James Thomson, the poet and playwright...artist J M W Turner. Thomson was born in Roxburgh and...Notoriously idle, in later life Thomson received a royal pension...sinecure. He died in 1748 and is buried in Richmond...
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Tribute to Scots writer restored
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; ...structure with a bust of Thomson and an imposing sculpture...Address to the Shade of Thomson, was read at the...skilled stonemason. James Carter, the project manager, said: "Thomson celebrated the natural...Kelso in September 1700 before the family...where he died in 1748. ...
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