Can you clarify what you mean by the 22% increase? Are you saying a property that was assessed at $500,000 in 2005 with a current assessed value of $610,000 would not pay any additional taxes except for budgetary increases?

I think my family does a good job recycling and perhaps to a fault will err on tossing something in the blue bin over the garbage can. I've struggled with which blue bin to choose because I think the medium bin should be sufficient for most of our regular needs, but on occasion, we will need...