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When Massachusetts Governor W. Mitt Romney announced last month that he was restructuring the state budget for Fiscal Year 2004, he claimed that the plan would save the state $2.17 billion without doing much harm. “The budget is balanced. It doesn’t raise taxes; it preserves our commitment to care for those who can’t care for themselves,” Romney said at the time. A month later, a series of crushing cuts in state aid to municipalities and human services reveal the flimsiness of Romney’s third claim...
Last week, Massachusetts Governor W. Mitt Romney announced his budget, which makes a small increase in revenues while reorganizing many departments. The plan has already faced heavy scrutiny, and soon the House will have its turn to edit Romney’s proposal...
...students. Moreover, cuts to higher education comparable to those of other departments are fair. In the past, governors have often left cuts vague or targeted universities’ general funds, leaving choices up to college administrators—who usually reduce every budget except for their own. Romney has taken a different tack; he has called for a program that would completely restructure the public universities’ administration, while making them more self-sufficient by increasing tuition...
Governor W. Mitt Romney ordered non-essential state workers to remain home today, while Cambridge closed administrative offices...
...statewide smoking ban is unlikely in the near term, because Gov. W. Mitt Romney and other state leaders have yet to express support for such legislation...