Word: state
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Abortion will be especially important in races for state seats from Cambridge, says Sandra M. Graham, a former state representative and retiring Cambridge City Councillor...
Many voters in Massachusetts--now paying the first installments of an emergency increase in the state income tax of three-quarters of 1 percent--may not approve of a $855 million tax package to cover the deficit, under consideration in the Democrat controlled House of Representatives...
...have to bring Massachusetts state spending in line with our existing resources," Pierce says. "Massachusetts taxpayers cannot be responsible for flitting the bill for mismanagement...
...Governor Evelyn Murphy, a Democratic frontrunner with former attorney general Francis X. Bellotti, is seen as the candidate closest to Dukakis, whom Democrats and Republicans alike have blamed for the state's fiscal situation...
...role that the state is likely to play in regulating abortions is an issue sure to work its way into campaign rhetoric...