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Greetings!
 With the clock ticking down to the end of this legislative session, advocates are making final pushes for their priorities, and committees of lawmakers are working to find compromise on a number of bills, including the controversial casinos bill that aims to bring revenue and jobs to our state.
Maybe it's time to start talking again about taking a long, hard, comprehensive look at all of our state's priorities, and how we can reform both our budget and the revenues that support it.
For more information on revenue reform and how you can get involved in building a more stable, adequate, and balanced, fiscal future for our state, please contact ONE Massachusetts today!
Sincerely,
Yawu Miller
Project Manager, ONE Massachusetts
yawu@realclout.org | 617-275-2918
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REVENUE
By 2013, a fair, adequate, and stable tax system will be implemented.
It will raise sufficient revenue so that state and local governments
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Casinos
Senate leader: Casino bill still alive.
The clock is ticking on legalizing casinos in Massachusetts, and with three days to the end of the legislative session, state Senate President Therese Murray says there's still time to reach a compromise. [Full Article: SouthCoast Today]
The Senate's top gambling conferee said Thursday afternoon he was confident the conference committee on gambling could produce a bill in time for an 8 p.m. Friday deadline. "We've got the framework for resolutions on everything," Senate President Pro Tempore Stanley Rosenberg said. "We don't have the details on all the issues." Rosenberg said conferees planned to meet shortly after the 1 p.m. Constitutional Convention, which ended quickly. [State House News Service]
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Sales Tax
Mass. Gov. Patrick urges passage of tax holiday
Gov. Deval Patrick is urging Massachusetts lawmakers to give final approval to a weekend sales tax holiday before the end of their formal session Saturday. [Full Article: Boston Globe]
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Municipal Finance
Boards work to raise revenue
Hamilton boards and committees are working together to brainstorm ways for the town to raise tax revenue through land-use options. The boards met together earlier this month, and on Monday, presented updates to the Hamilton Board of Selectmen. [Full Article: Wenham Local]
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CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
By 2013, the voice and input of the state's multi-racial, multi-ethnic communities will create a counterweight to the currently dominant voice and will be tangibly reflected in the public decision making process. |
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Paid Sick Days
Efforts continue in final week of session to keep Paid Sick Days in front of legislators.
Coalition members lead by moms and kids from MomsRising will meet at the Grand Staircase to deliver stories from moms across the Commonwealth who desperately need paid sick days before the school year begins. Advocates urge folks statewide to continue to place calls to Speaker DeLeo, House Ways and Means Chairman Murphy, and Senate President, Terry Murray in support of Paid Sick Days - H 1815/S 688. For more information, please contact JALSA.
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GOVERNMENT REFORM
By 2013, a transparent, accessible and accountable state and local
policy-making process will be in place. |
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CORI Reform.
Rep. Grant of Beverly pulls proposal, standoff on CORI reform follows.
Beverly State Rep. Mary Grant... meant to bring attention to problems with probation laws... but unexpectedly withdrew her amendments to ensure the criminal records component, which supporters have been pushing for years as a way to help former inmates get jobs, wouldn't be held back by the early parole proposals.... [Full Article: Beverly Citizen]
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