Word: local
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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About 1000 local politicos attended the Massachusetts Democratic State Committee's (DSC) first "Policy Makers' Forum" Saturday at the Park Plaza Hotel in Boston...
King said the first stage of his three-part program to reduce taxes began February 9 when he introduced a bill to limit local taxes by "capping" city and town levies and expenditures at their fiscal 1979 levels. The remainder of the program will be unveiled February 28 when King releases his budget recommendations for fiscal...
Advent executives made the announcement late last week as the workers left the plant on their last day. The company is moving to Portsmouth. N.H., where it plans to hire primarily local workers...
...have their afternoon beers and whiskies at the Tide's Inn, think the battle is already lost. They are selling their suddenly fashionable homesteads at the inflated prices and moving out. Gripes retired Fisherman C.B. McHugh: "The silence is gone. There's nothing left but damned strangers." Local Aristocrat David Wolkowsky, who recently sold his Pier House hotel to New Orleans investors for $4.6 million (but kept his 1926 Rolls-Royce), is concerned but a bit more optimistic: "The future is secure as long as we keep this place as a getaway. If the funkiness goes, everything goes...
...movement against growth has led to violence, often aimed at the influx of homosexuals. A local newspaper ad placed by a Baptist minister last month called for vigilantes to take action against "female impersonators and queers." Victims of recent violence include a man beaten with a pipe as he used a phone booth, a jogger almost run down by a car, a local museum director shot and killed, a restaurant owner beaten unconscious, and Authors Tennessee Williams and Dotson Rader, who were mugged. Two of those arrested were sons of prominent local families...