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Many voters are eager Indian-givers, as shown by the overwhelming passage of Prop 2 1/2 state-wide 17 months ago. Now that property owners have taken back a significant portion of their tax contribution, they are not eager to open the way for continued high levies...
Here in Cambridge, voters defied the state-wide trend in 1980 and rejected Prop 2 1/2 by an almost 2-1 margin. If any Massachusetts community is likely to over-ride Prop 2 1/2, it is Cambridge, with its unusually informed electorate and progressive city council...
...despite the total lack of organized opposition to the referendum questions, it will be very difficult for pro-over-ride forces to match the impressive 1980 anti Prop 2 1/2 showing...
Local governments have four different options in asking voters for more money than otherwise allowed by Prop 2 1/2. Some municipalities placed on the ballot money requests for specific outlays, such as land purchase and building maintenance, some have asked voters to modify the terms of bonded indebtedness and others, like Cambridge have asked for a partial or total over ride of the tax cuts mandated by Proposition...
...than 100 employees from the school department alone. If the slide continues. Cambridge might as well go out of business as a city altogether. To halt the decline, city voters must run out to the polls in record numbers today, and vote in favor of two referendums to override Prop...