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Currently, the primary source of revenue for cities and towns is the property tax. Traditionally, property has not been assessed at full value, and residential property has been assessed at a lower value than commercial property, the reasoning being that businesses can afford to make higher payments than homeowners. This practice was declared unconstitutional by the State Supreme Court in 1974 with the accompanying directive that cities and towns in Massachusetts assess all property at 100 per cent of its fair market value. This practice, Corrigan said, doubles or triples taxes on homeowners, and falls particularly hard on those with...
...COLUMBIA: Ivy League football is tradition above all else, so why buck history and pick Columbia higher than last...
...Animal House's "filthy, outrageous lot" [Aug. 14] are the perfect portrait of "the true spirit of American higher education"! Well, well. Wherever Frank Rich attended college, he is certainly not qualified to condemn the entire American system of higher education on the basis of his own limited experience. Perhaps he went to college "to spend four years studying sex," but there is no justification for dragging the entire undergraduate world down to that level...
...Fabian and Student Kathy Evans, of the University of Pittsburgh, have found an ingenious way to curb competitiveness in basketball. Last year they introduced an intramural program in which the scores of both teams were added together. Two opposing teams win a joint victory when their total score is higher than those in other games played at the same hour. The goal of the program is to eliminate scorekeeping altogether...
Early on, Anthony Lewis, a New York Times columnist knowledgeable in the law, wrote that if Jersey higher courts are "wise enough to rescue the trial judge from his mistake" and narrow the material sought, "I think the reporter and the paper will face a compelling obligation to comply." In the emotional atmosphere around the Times newsroom, this was courageous counsel; it also appears to be what the Times is prepared...