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...only place in Massachusetts to feel the pinch of a statewide budget shortfall. Recently, in response to spiraling state revenues, Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78 was forced to announce more than $1 billion in budget cuts, affecting towns and cities across the Commonwealth. As Patrick recently said, “This is not about cutting so-called fat. This is going to cut muscle, because the scale of the issue requires that.” The rash of budget cuts facing successful programs is unfortunate, but understandable. In hard times, sacrifices must be made, and there...
...College voters in Massachusetts face other exacting requirements. Registering by mail in the Commonwealth requires a state ID with a residential address, but many undergraduates don’t have dorm addresses printed on their IDs. The Cambridge Election Commission lets Harvard students register by mail with their home-state and Harvard IDs, Gissinger said, but students at other schools aren’t so lucky...
...next vice president of the United States, recently called paying taxes “patriotic.” Next Tuesday, Massachusetts voters will go to the polls to decide his fate—and the fate of patriotism itself. Ballot Question 1 asks Bay Staters simply: Should the commonwealth eliminate its income...
...pass Prop 2½ “overrides” to avoid deep cuts. When an override fails, nurses are laid off; schools close; 911 response times get longer. Question 1 would have the effect of several failed overrides per community—in all 351 communities in the commonwealth...
...question, while 37 percent are opposed. If the question passes, the ban on dog racing would go into effect in 2010. Greyhound racing has been a legalized industry in Massachusetts for over 70 years, but its popularity has declined substantially in recent decades. Only two tracks in the Commonwealth continue to feature greyhound racing—Wonderland Park in Revere, Mass. and Raynham-Taunton Greyhound Park in Bristol County, which borders Rhode Island. Supporters of the bill said that there were over 800 injuries of greyhounds at the two parks since 2006, including broken legs, paralysis, and even cardiac arrest...