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After intense public opposition, Fayette Superintendent Demetrus Liggins is recommending taking off the table a controversial proposal to increase the occupational license tax rate.
Liggins’ suggestion at a special Thursday Fayette County Public Schools board meeting to no longer consider the tax hike is a sharp reversal from previous public conversations in which district officials and the majority of school board members were in favor of increasing the rate…