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Monthly Archives: March 2009

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Lighting Up an Issue…

The passage of Question 2 is in many ways one of the greatest victories in the history of drug reform in the United States. Say what you will about Massachusetts’ leftward political bent, but the results from last November would have been reproduced in all

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Give Us Liberty or We Sentence It to Death…

There has been a lot of buzz in the media and in political circles about Massachusetts’ abysmally low rate of contested Legislative races last year. Only 35 of 200 races were contested, the lowest rate of all the states that held legislative races here. The

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Gas Me Up, Gov’nah…

Although other revenue options remain in the background, the most tax that has generated the most buzz and discord more than any of the others is Gov. Patrick’s plan to raise the gas tax 19 cents on the gallon. The result would be over 40

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Shortest Months of the Year…

February was a bad month on so many levels. Transportation funding and miscellaneous taxes have set passions ablaze. Libraries and Public Works face drastic cuts in the City of Homes. The economy, well, what can one say? And WMassP&I has not been here for you.