{"id":357612,"date":"2025-11-05T14:28:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T14:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/357612\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T14:28:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T14:28:16","slug":"election-2025-philadelphia-suburbs-vote-on-policing-open-space-ballot-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/357612\/","title":{"rendered":"Election 2025: Philadelphia suburbs vote on policing, open space ballot questions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Montgomery County<\/p>\n

In Montgomery County, voters in Upper Frederick and Upper Providence townships faced questions about tax increases to fund open space benefits and other environmental improvements.\n<\/p>\n

In Upper Frederick Township, voters approved a .04% increase in earned income tax<\/a> to fund the purchase of additional open space, maintain and improve existing open space benefits, and expand existing parks, among other activities.\n<\/p>\n

Voters in Upper Providence Township rejected a .06% increase in earned income tax<\/a> and an increase of $0.50 per $1,000 assessed valuation in real property tax to fund township activities, including trail expansion, flood damage mitigation, the preservation of clean water and wildlife habitats and open space benefits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Montgomery County In Montgomery County, voters in Upper Frederick and Upper Providence townships faced questions about tax increases…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":357613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,89694,1448,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-357612","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-elections-2025","10":"tag-pa","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115497566475344423","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}