Word: localism
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...Seidel said that the nature of the customer base of Harvard Square ensured that local businesses would “probably not be terribly impacted...
Seidel said that he believed the negative impact of the tax would be smaller than the positive impact of the additional local aid that will be available to local communities from the new revenue...
Under the plan, $200 million of the new revenue would go to towns and communities for local aid, and $275 million would go to transportation. The sales tax hike stands in contrast to the House’s initial state budget, released on April 15, which did not draw from new sources of revenue or state reserves and included wide cuts to local aid, services, and programs...
...Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub hosted Brendan Maclean and the Magic Hat Brewing Company last night as a continuation of its Beer School series. Beer School—which began in the spring of 2007 when the Pub opened—brings in local brewers to host beer tastings and to talk about life in the brewing industry. Beer School takes place about two or three times per semester. MacLean, the leader of the series, is the sales representative of Magic Hat Brewing Company in the greater Boston area. During his presentation, he spoke about Magic Hat?...
...length orangutan encounter, with the shadows of great apes ambling through trees glimpsed through a long camera lens. At Camp Leakey, you can pat, hug and hold hands with the animals. Even getting to the camp is an enchantment: you putter up river for hours on a local kelotok boat, and weave through rain forest. "We need to have more tourists visit in order to provide a livelihood for people," says Ferry Candra, a national-park guide. "Without them, locals will just go back into the forests as rubber farmers or loggers and the forests will continue to disappear...