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...stock portfolios aren’t the only things that have fallen during these unsteady financial times: their property tax bills will also show little to no increase. Thanks to the City Council which agreed on the property tax rate for fiscal year 2009 last night. More than 58 percent of residential property owners will see either no change or an increase of fewer than $100 in their tax bill, while 25 percent will experience a decrease in their property taxes, City Manager Robert W. Healy told the Council last night. For the most part, the small percentage of residents...
...Committee for Small Government, would reduce the current state income tax rate of 5.3% to 2.65% beginning on January 1, 2009, and eliminate it completely the following year. Taxpayers would save an average of $3,600 a year, at a cost of roughly $12.5 billion, or 40 percent, of the state budget. While government officials argue that the initiative would decimate government projects ranging from Massachusetts’ one-of-a-kind universal health care plan to infrastructure repairs, proponents see the initiative as an opportunity to expose and eliminate wasteful government spending. “These are the usual...
...then there’s the collider itself. Statistics about it don’t even sound real. Particles will reach 99.9999991 percent of light speed. Temperatures can drop to 456.25 degrees below zero. We’ll find the “God Particle!” (Not quite as apocalyptic as it sounds...
...will help us probe what the universe was like just moments after the Big Bang. It might explain why more than 95 percent of the stuff out there is actually invisible. And it could lead to technological breakthroughs years from now. Plus, with all the low hanging fruit in physics already picked, scientists need expensive technology to continue delving into the secrets of the universe. Clocks, pendulums, and oil drops just don’t cut it in the 21st century...
...echoes of eugenics, the race issues that are inextricably bound up with class here, and LaBruzzo’s arrant disregard for less dramatic measures, such as improving sexual education and access to contraceptives. Forget for a moment that the number of Louisiana welfare recipients has plummeted to four percent of its size since 1990. More alarmingly than all this is the popular response which LaBruzzo’s proposal has received...