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...residents—as well as their elementary school-aged children—join with Watertown politicians, loudly voicing their fear that the city will lose long-awaited property taxes needed for funding city services and the town’s education system. The rally blasts the tax-exempt University for not making higher payments to the town...
...marijuana leads to hard narcotics. In an interview with TIME last week, Attorney General John Ashcroft praised the Supreme Court decision. "We can't function well as a country if each state makes its own rules about what's available health-care-wise," he argued. "If Congress wants to exempt various people from the laws of this country, it's their duty...
More than a hundred people gathered to criticize Harvard for its unwillingness to pay higher payment in-lieu-of taxes to Watertown, saying the University is jeopardizing the city’s ability to fund schools and city services by “hiding” behind its tax-exempt, non-profit status...
...This is a huge overreach of their purported tax exempt status,” said Watertown Town Manager Michael Driscoll. “To take this action will cripple the financial stability of this community...
...this year, seven have been executed. Governor Rick Perry, Bush's Republican successor, recently signed a bill giving the accused access to state-paid DNA testing, the strongest such law in the country. A pending bill would add life without parole to sentencing options in capital cases; another would exempt the mentally retarded from capital punishment and improve the quality of lawyers assigned to the cases of indigent defendants. Most striking of all is a bill that would allow Texans to vote on imposing a two-year moratorium on executions. When it was recently considered by a panel of lawmakers...