A new website dedicated to providing academic and career assistance to college students appears to have achieved a fast start, gaining 350 users in the space of a month.
Monday, May 21, 2012 | last update: 10:57 pm
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New student assistance website gaining rapid popularity
Tags: ashkon jafari, silicon valley, studentmentor.org
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Question 3 divides voters over rolling back sales tax
Massachusetts ballot Question 3 would scale back the sales tax in the Bay State from 6.25 to 3 percent. However, it would also cut the state’s total tax revenue by about 10 percent.
Tags: Decision 2010
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Ballot question 2 demystified
On election day Massachusetts voters will have to decide whether or not to repeal the comprehensive permit law. Staff writer Katie Byrne details what this vote means for the future of housing in the Commonwealth.
Tags: Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Donahue Institute, Housing Appeals Committee, Stanley Rosenberg, zoning board of appeals
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Repealing the alcohol tax: to do or not to do?
This election, Massachusetts voters will decide the fate of three ballot questions. Among them are questions pertaining to eliminating sales tax on alcohol, repealing a law which allows developers building low-income housing to obtain a single permit, and a third which would reduce the state’s sales tax to 3 percent starting in January.
Tags: alcohol tax, amherst, Ellen Story, Representative Story
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