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Mayor Alice K. Wolf predicted yesterday that the city will "most likely" face a cut in state aid because of "tough times" throughout the Commonwealth...
There was suspicion the sabotage was related to the bitter 30-month contract dispute between the utility workers' union and the government-run power authority on the island, a U.S. commonwealth of 3.6 million people...
...been, a unified economic disaster area, and that, not ethnicity, is the main reason so many of those 280 million people want out. The U.S.S.R. has to go much further in falling apart before the pieces will have the incentive to reconstitute themselves as a loose confederation or commonwealth...
Last weekend was not the first time the police have targeted Louie's, which is located next to Mather House, for potential violations of the Commonwealth's laws governing alcohol sales to minors, said Chen. Chen added that the crack down at Louie's was just part of the Cambridge and Harvard police forces' regular monitoring of area liquor stores...
Most cities and towns in the commonwealth are broke or near-broke. Most municipalities have long depleted their cash resources and are taxing their property owners at the legal limit established by Proposition 2 1/2. Cambridge is one of a handful of cities that remains below its tax levy, retaining $18 million in free cash to keep its bond rating high and its borrowing costs low. While most cities are drastically reducing and cutting programs or are desperately trying to override Proposition 2 1/2, Cambridge has continued to offer, and in some cases improve, its extensive social service...