Word: kaprielian
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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State Representative Rachel Kaprielian, D—29th Middlesex, told the Toad crowd that “the tsunami is coming to stamp out smoking...
...Today, Cambridge and Somerville. Tomorrow, the state,” said Kaprielian, who is co-sponsoring the proposed bill to ban workplace smoking. “It is only right. It is only just. It is only time...
...main result of the conflict is a bill sponsored by Rep. Rachel Kaprielian (D-Watertown) that would allow a city to collect property taxes when a non-profit purchases more than 2.5 percent of the tax base. The bill would discourage the founding of large charitable institutions in Massachusetts or the expansion of old ones, and all in all it’s a terrible idea. What the state government should be considering instead is a bill that would reimburse municipalities for the losses that large tax-exempt institutions create. That way, the reward for charitable work is preserved without...
Given that the Kaprielian bill would have to overcome the lobbying strength of Harvard and other Massachusetts universities, the current system of unequal costs, unshared burdens and unceasing strife seems likely to continue. After all, there’s historical precedent—acquisitions of land by the Church continued almost unabated after 1279. Undying corporations do tend to stick around, especially ones that are already many centuries (or millennia) old. But it’s about time that the people of Massachusetts took the responsibility to preserve the local tax base out of Harvard’s dead hand...
...What they have done in the past is that they carve up the district of an exiting incumbent,” said Watertown Representative Rachel Kaprielian...