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Leslie A. Kirwan ’79, the State of Massachusetts?? head finance official, has been named Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean for administration and finance, effective...
...sales tax increase—proposed by House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo—will raise an additional $900 million annually in revenue, helping to bridge Massachusetts?? projected $3.6 billion deficit for fiscal year...
...third Beanpot Championship today against Northeastern (14-10, 5-4 CAA). The contest, slated to begin at 3 p.m., will be played at Campanelli Stadium in Brockton, Mass. and will determine which of the teams play for the championship on Monday—against either Boston College or Massachusetts??at Fenway Park. If recent history between the two teams is any indication, this year’s game will be a close one. The opening-round game between the Huskies and the Crimson is a rematch from last year’s Beanpot consolation game, which Northeastern...
...despite the increasing gap between tax revenues and spending. The Massachusetts Division of Unemployment Assistance recently released reports that unemployment has reached 7.8 percent, which is still below the national average, but represents a 4 percent increase from January. Both speakers focused on the impact of budgetary shortfalls on Massachusetts?? education system and health care system. The budget for fiscal year 2010 will almost certainly include significant cuts in health care spending, while maintaining funding for Massachusetts schools, they said. Massachusetts currently devotes 31 percent of its budget to MassHealth, the Massachusetts Medicaid system, according to Kirwan, while...
...economic stimulus package would be incomplete without funding for basic research and “intellectual infrastructure.” Earlier this month, the Massachusetts Life Science Collaborative—co-chaired by University President Drew G. Faust and the heads of MIT, Genzyme Corporation, and the University of Massachusetts??wrote a letter to the state congressional delegation advocating for increases in NIH funding, writing that each grant awarded creates an average of seven jobs, and that every dollar invested in the NIH generates twice as much in economic output. They also wrote that...