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...just 200 after a 2001 ban on feed sellers and the recruitment of a harrier hawk. But not all cities are inhospitable. In Venice, feed sellers can be fined up to $590, but those catering to the 40,000-strong flock of St. Mark's Square are exempt. Paris officially welcomes pigeons as "the only sign of biodiversity in the city center," but is now testing public pigeonniers - lofts like those already in use in 20 German cities. Each houses hundreds of birds: their mess is contained and their eggs removed or sterilized. Belgium adores its racing pigeons, but escapees...
...August of 2002, HLS announced that it would exempt military recruiters from its nondiscrimination requirements because of a Pentagon threat to follow through on the amendment...
Ballot Proposition One, which would have petitioned the state legislature to exempt Cambridge from a state law banning rent control, needed one third of Cambridge’s 56,000 registered voters to support...
...It’s time for a paradigm shift. Throughout our history, these large institutions have been considered not-for-profit and tax exempt. By requiring these institution to set aside 1 percent of the earnings on these endowments to a fund for distribution to communities in which tax exempt property is located would, in Harvard’s case this year, have provided over $24-million to affected communities...
...time the powers that be in the Massachusetts real estate world will not be able to march out the token small-time property owner who might otherwise be unable to afford proper upkeep if rent control is reestablished. Owner occupied buildings of three or fewer residences would be completely exempt from rent control under the new law, and owners with six or fewer units could file for exemptions if they have trouble meeting maintenance costs. Therefore, only those people wealthy enough to own large properties will have to take a cut in their enormous profits. It doesn?...