I am carefully watching the final weeks of the campaigning for Norway’s Parliamentary Elections.
Earlier this year, conventional wisdom was that a Conservative-led coalition would be victorious, replacing today’s Labour-led coalition. But much has happened since then.
– The ruling coalition broke, the Centre Party withdrew from government.
– PM Jonas Gahr Støre brough in Jens Stoltenberg as Finance Minister.
– Stoltenberg is a highly-respected former PM and NATO Secretary General.
– The minority government then pursued much-clearer Labour policies.
– The advent of Trump and his extreme and erratic policies has greatly increased the Center-Left’s popularity in Norway, just as Trump did for Canada, Australia, Romania and other countries.
– The Labour Party’s popularity skyrocketed.
– The right-wing Progress Party has surpassed the Conservative Party in the polls.
– Their party leaders, Erna Solberg and Sylvi Lysthaug, are acrimoniously fighting like cat and dog about who should be prime minister if they get a majority.
– For centrist parties who might support Solberg, the thought of Lysthaug as PM is anathema.
– Opinion polls now indicate that Labour and allied parties hold a slight edge.
– Several parties, both Left, Centrist and Right-wing (by Norwegian standards) find themselves at the threshold, raising uncertainty whether they’ll make it into Parliament.
Which parties climb above or fall below the threshold may well decide whether Norway will have a Center-Left or Right-wing governing coalition after the election.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and his wife, Angela, are longtime owners of a $1.5 million house in a gated community outside Dallas. In 2015, they snapped up a second home in Austin. Then another.
The problem: Mortgages signed by the Paxtons contained inaccurate statements declaring that each of those three houses was their primary residence, enabling the now-estranged couple to improperly lock in low interest rates, according to an Associated Press review of public records. The lower rates will save the Paxtons tens of thousands of dollars in payments over the life of the loan, legal experts say.
The records also revealed that the Paxtons routinely flouted lending agreements on some of their other properties.
NORWAY – Parliamentary Elections, 8 September
I am carefully watching the final weeks of the campaigning for Norway’s Parliamentary Elections.
Earlier this year, conventional wisdom was that a Conservative-led coalition would be victorious, replacing today’s Labour-led coalition. But much has happened since then.
– The ruling coalition broke, the Centre Party withdrew from government.
– PM Jonas Gahr Støre brough in Jens Stoltenberg as Finance Minister.
– Stoltenberg is a highly-respected former PM and NATO Secretary General.
– The minority government then pursued much-clearer Labour policies.
– The advent of Trump and his extreme and erratic policies has greatly increased the Center-Left’s popularity in Norway, just as Trump did for Canada, Australia, Romania and other countries.
– The Labour Party’s popularity skyrocketed.
– The right-wing Progress Party has surpassed the Conservative Party in the polls.
– Their party leaders, Erna Solberg and Sylvi Lysthaug, are acrimoniously fighting like cat and dog about who should be prime minister if they get a majority.
– For centrist parties who might support Solberg, the thought of Lysthaug as PM is anathema.
– Opinion polls now indicate that Labour and allied parties hold a slight edge.
– Several parties, both Left, Centrist and Right-wing (by Norwegian standards) find themselves at the threshold, raising uncertainty whether they’ll make it into Parliament.
Which parties climb above or fall below the threshold may well decide whether Norway will have a Center-Left or Right-wing governing coalition after the election.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and his wife, Angela, are longtime owners of a $1.5 million house in a gated community outside Dallas. In 2015, they snapped up a second home in Austin. Then another.
The problem: Mortgages signed by the Paxtons contained inaccurate statements declaring that each of those three houses was their primary residence, enabling the now-estranged couple to improperly lock in low interest rates, according to an Associated Press review of public records. The lower rates will save the Paxtons tens of thousands of dollars in payments over the life of the loan, legal experts say.
The records also revealed that the Paxtons routinely flouted lending agreements on some of their other properties.
https://apnews.com/article/paxton-mortgages-trump-primary-residence-homestead-deduction-bd259b6bd122afcaf4f11eac5a3a152e