{"id":803,"date":"2004-12-05T08:49:14","date_gmt":"2004-12-05T08:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=803"},"modified":"2004-12-05T08:49:14","modified_gmt":"2004-12-05T08:49:14","slug":"property_tax_bi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=803","title":{"rendered":"Property Tax Bills: Reading the Tea Leaves?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ci.madison.wi.us\/images\/mayorCieslewiczsmall.jpg\" TITLE=\"Mayor Dave\"><br \/>\nPerhaps my mind fails me, but in years past, I recall receiving a pleasant marketing letter from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofmadison.com\/mayor\/mayor.html\">Mayor<\/a> extolling the hard work that went into limiting the annual increases in our property tax bills.  This year, I found only the bill.  I&#8217;ve emailed the Mayor&#8217;s office asking for comments on this.<br \/>\nPerhaps, given the size of this year&#8217;s increases, they did not want to be that closely identified with the tax bills?  (OTOH, eliminating the letter does save a few dollars).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps my mind fails me, but in years past, I recall receiving a pleasant marketing letter from the Mayor extolling the hard work that went into limiting the annual increases in our property tax bills. This year, I found only the bill. I&#8217;ve emailed the Mayor&#8217;s office asking for comments on this. Perhaps, given the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}