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Boston faces an even tighter garbage situation than New Jersey in the near future, according to officials at the Department of Hazardous and Solid Waste. The city exports all of its waste to landfills in eastern Massachusetts. Beacon Hill sends its trash to New Hampshire. Ten years ago, 400 landfills took garbage in Massachusetts. Since municipalities can veto new landfills, only one has opened in recent years. Today, only 190 landfills are in operation in the state and waste officials estimate that by 1990, three-quarters of these will close...
...guys don't have to go to city hall or to the organization you'll bump into top state officials in hall-ways and get what you need," White told the members of the Democratic Club Ward Five members. Ward Five is in the Beacon Hill area right near the state capitol building...
During the past year, the city's Licensing Board has under pressure from neighborhood groups refused to renew B.U.'s license to use some 60 apartment buildings along Beacon Street for student housing, Carleton said...
...embryo Republic, he drew them as classical columns standing together. The phrase the "federal pillars" was not just an empty cliche. Jefferson was not, of course, the only architect to act on such beliefs. In 1795 work began on Charles Bulfinch's new Massachusetts state house on Beacon Hill. The Old State House, built in 1712-13, had been the symbol of British power over Boston's economic life. Its site was tainted by the Boston Massacre. Its balcony signified rule by proclamation from on high...
Harvard affiliates occupy important positions in the legislature as several serve as the chairs of state committees. In addition the current speaker of the House is George Keverian '53 (D-Everett). Clearly there is an impressive Crimson coterie on Beacon Hill, but the University's lobbyists say they do not need to exploit any influence they might have with these politicians...