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...Healy proposed only a modest property tax increase of .8 percent, the smallest tax levy hike since fiscal year...
These results seem to square with many people's sense of the game recently. Baseball did not have a repeat champion after 1977 until 1993, and last year's best team (the Montreal Expos) had one of the smallest payrolls...
...PRESENT predicament? In the always conventional wisdom of Washington, legions of the elderly and those nearing retirement are terrified that any change, even the smallest, will lead sooner or later to slashing their none too generous government checks. And they will punish any legislator who doesn't swear to keep hands off the system with the electoral equivalent of burning at the stake. This attitude certainly exists, and not only among older Americans of modest means. Leonard Schwartz, 52, a lawyer in Austin, Texas, earns a six-figure income and has built up a sizable nest egg for the retirement...
Despite these unimpressive records, both the players and coaching staff know that the smallest loss of focus on this their final road trip could turn their dream season into a nightmare...
...lingering, bar-hopping smokers need not panic--the bill still allows for smoking in bars. The smallest bars have no restrictions at all. Bars would clearly be the biggest losers of revenue under a total ban, as they were in Brookline recently. As a result, CUSP remains sympathetic to them. Ideally we would like to see a total ban, but reality and economics tell us that a ban on smoking in bars would hurt what little bar scene remains in Cambridge...