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Mass. Governor Deval L. Patrick '78 approved a 25 percent increase in the state's sales tax last week, from 5 percent to 6.25 percent, drawing apathy from some local business managers but also concerns from others who fear the move will only aggravate a slumping economy...
...approved budget will also raise the state's meal tax from 5 to 6.25 percent, and will allow local communities to raise the tax to 7 percent and keep the extra revenue. A 5 percent gross receipts tax will also be exacted on satellite TV providers' receipts from subscriptions, and local hotel taxes will increase by 2 percent. Sales tax will now also apply to alcohol purchased from retail stores, which had previously been exempt...
...Denise A. Jillson, director of the Harvard Square Business Association, said that it was still too early to say how much of an impact the sales tax hike would have on the Square. But she said that she hasn't heard any complaints from local businesses, adding that Harvard Square generally has very few problems retaining businesses...
Kireeva suggests a possible explanation for local apparatchiks rallying around the kind of memorial that Moscow rejects: political expediency. "Medvedev and Putin have the least support in the whole country in Murmansk," she says. "United Russia knows this." A little remembering might be the price the regime has to pay to keep the peace...
...discovery of the cabin, which is painted black and stands about 10 ft. tall, sparked a furor in Murmansk; at an Apr. 29 town-hall meeting, locals said they wanted it turned into a memorial. Regional governor Dmitry Dmitriyenko pledged his support and the city has set aside a small plot overlooking the harbor and next to another memorial, a lighthouse dedicated to sailors who died in peacetime. (This memorial also mentions the Kursk sailors, but Vitaly Poborchiy, a local businessman and ranking member of the regional branch of the pro-Kremlin United Russia party, says townsfolk want a monument...