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New York City’s property taxes are already among the highest in the country.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 18, 2026

They also have to remove leaves, twigs and needles from gutters, and they already cannot keep exposed firewood in piles next to their house.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2026

The council said there were already bollards around more than half of the green, adding that additional bollards had been placed "to prevent vehicles driving on and damaging the grassed area".

From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026

The papers caught the attention of Thomas Edison, then 40 years old, rumpled, ascetic and already the most powerful figure in American electrical innovation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026

There were some days and nights so still and silent now, that it really seemed to me sometimes as if the war might have ended already, and we just had not heard about it.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo