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...tempted to believe that the four conservative Southerners--Sen. Fritz Hollings (D.S.C), former Gov. Reubin Askew of Florida, probably Sen. Dale Bumpers (D-Ark.), and perhaps former National Party Chairman Robert Straus of Texas--have entered the fray partly out of the much heralded "turn to the right" the country experienced in 1980. Indeed, early press reports indicated that Sen. Hollings based the rationale for his campaign in part on those halcyonyon pre recession days of 1981, when Time referred to Reagan as a domestically able President," and a Democratic candidacy as a conservative alternative to Ronald Reagan seemed credible...
...Gov. Michael S. Dukakis made assistance to the homeless one of the principal goals of his administration when he came into office last month. A bill he proposed to send $6 million to social service organizations passed in the State House of Representatives last week and is pending approval in the State Senate, says Kathleen K. Townsend, policy analyst for the state Office of Human Services...
...Gov. Michael S. Dukakis's pledge to increase local aid by more than $150 million over last year has drawn praise from municipal officials who say that for the first time in three years they will be able to maintain a constant level of services, rather than cutting back drastically...
Massachusetts voters approved the property tax-cutting measure Proposition 2 1/2 in the fall of 1980. Since then, municipal budgets have been seriously strained not only because those revenues have been down, but also because former Gov. Edward J. King provided little local aid to counter the losses...
...anti-crime bill announced last week by Gov. Michael S. Dukakis would add 600 officers to police departments across the state, and provide more than $10 million for new and expanded crime prevention programs at the municipal level...