Word: wolfs
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...other councillors are looking to the state for help in recouping some of the lost property tax revenue. Wolf says she and Councillor Timothy J. Toomey are working on a proposal "that the [state] local aid formula include a factor for the amount of institutional land in the city...
This arrangement asks the state to grant more aid to cities that have a lot of tax-exempt land. Wolf says that although this bill will likely not pass, it is "a correct thing...
Councillor Alice K. Wolf says that the city is looking to get more money from Harvard, however, because while Harvard benefits many people in many places, Cambridge is stuck with the whole bill. "Institutions like Harvard really cost the city, but their impact is well beyond the bounds of the city," she says...
Students need not worry that the bill will get sent to them, though. Wolf says that taxing students would require a home rule petition to determine whether it's constitutional in the state. She also says that taxing students, or tuition, is neither feasible nor morally the best alternative...
When City Councillor Alice K. Wolf announced in April that she would not be running for re-election to the City Council next fall, Cambridge politicos started speculating on her plans...