Word: gov
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...property tax increase is primarily due to cutbacks in in state aid to Massachusetts city and towns--the result of efforts by Gov. Michael S. Dukakis to close the state's ever-increasing budget deficit. To date, the city has lost $3.5 million in state aid, and city officials said they anticipate that figure to rise by at least $1 million over the course of the next year...
Fellow Massachusetts Democratic politician, Gov. Michael S. Dukakis, won acclaim during the 1988 presidential campaign for refusing to accept donations from PACs...
There were several people who were conspicuously absent from the procession of jokesters who took the microphone during the three-hour long event. Among them were Democrats U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy, and gubernatorial candidates Francis X. Bellotti and Lt. Gov. Evelyn Murphy...
Republican quips about the state's fiscal crisis preceded the appearance of Gov. Michael S. Dukakis and his wife, Kitty. Bulger defended the embattled governor and alluded to the state's fiscal mess: "It gets me mad when people say the state is in chaos. Chaos--those were the good old days...
Hernandez-Colon will be followed by former Gov. Carlos Romero Barcelo, a strong advocate of statehood, and Ruben Berrios Martinez, president of the Puerto Rican Independence Party...