Word: lande
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This would allow the legislature to assess at different rates two types of land: privately-owned recreation land, and land left in its natural state. The legislature presently has this power regarding agricultural and wild or forest land. It's too bad the "natural state" provision is mixed in with the "recreation" provision, because passage of Question 7 basically means a tax break for country clubs. Golf, anyone...
...normalization should soon come. Fairy tales aside, the U.S. owes Vietnam much more than diplomatic relations. That should be the least it offers to a land it almost obliterated. And America, too, needs normalization beyond the practical, quantifiable gains of trade, new sources of oil, and regional stability. It is long past time that the U.S. learned to pursue its interests with legitimate methods. The U.S. should recognize Vietnam before thousands more "familiarize" themselves on some other continent in some other misbeggotten...
...Howes, had his property assessment raised by Howe from $10,600 to $14,000 in 1976. Howe says the property was previously under-valued, and that the 40-per-cent assessment increase was long overdue. But the property itself had no buildings that could have increased in value. "The land was vacant," Donovan remembers. "He couldn't justify the assessment." Donovan, too, received an abatement from the rest of the city's assessors...
...kind of no-man's land," Langton said yesterday, moving on from pizza to french fries. "It wasn't the best situation...
...approved by voters on November 7, the amendment to the state's constitution would allow the Massachusetts legislature to establish four different classes of real property for tax purposes: residential, commercial, industrial and open land, instead of assessing all property at full value...