BOSTON ? Governor Deval Patrick introduced the Beacon Hill Institute?s Eighth Annual Competitiveness Report at a conference at Suffolk University Law School, 120 Tremont Street, Boston on Novembe 19th.
The report shows that Massachusetts ranks 1st among all state in terms of its economic ?competitiveness,? i.e., its ability to attract and retain business and to provide a high standard of living for its residents over the long run.
(BOSTON ) ? After examining the nation?s slide into a recession and the prospects for recovery, The Beacon Hill Institute at Suffolk University today released its forecasts of Massachusetts state tax revenues for fiscal years (FY) 2009 and 2010. While Massachusetts performed better than the
national economy for most of 2008, the state?s economy is expected to contract. As a result, revenue will decline by 6.3% in FY 2009 and by 3.0% in FY 2010.
When someone has been found guilt of a crime, the judge may suspend the jail sentence and place them on probation. This doesn’t mean that they don’t have to worry about going to jail though. If they commit a probation violation, the suspended sentence will be revoked and they will have to serve the jail [...]
Amicus brief jointly by the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii and the Southeastern Legal Foundation
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Amicus brief jointly by the Pacific Legal Foundation, the Cato Institute, and the Center for Equal Opportunity
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Amicus brief by the Mountain States Legal Foundation
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Amicus brief of the Commissioner of Public Lands for the State of New Mexico
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Amicus brief of the Center for [...]
by Timothy Sandefur Jacob Sullum at Reason magazine has a brief post here on the libel suit filed by millionaire developer H. Walker Royall against Carla Main, the author of the excellent book Bulldozed (available from Amazon, B&N, and from…
by Timothy Sandefur This week, the Pacific Legal Foundation joined forces with the Show-Me Institute and the Missouri Ombudsman for Property Rights to argue that the Missouri Supreme Court should reject the use of so-called “windshield surveys” to decide when…
by Timothy Sandefur Y’all remember the Freeport, Texas, eminent domain case? It was the subject of Carla Main’s excellent book Bulldozed, which I reviewed here. It’s a case in which the City of Freeport decided to condemn a family-owned business…
The estate tax is double taxation at its worst! How dare we work all our life, many of us taking risks and building businesses and face the possibility that the business we built could face closure or a sale off to pay the estate tax when we are gone from this world! Family owned businesses [...]
If you are planning to have Corpus Christi Texas Vacation you can expect to have all types of fun at one place. It is a well known family destination in shore area of Gulf. It is few minutes away from Padre Island. You can expect to have fun, dining, sun, entertainment which makes this first [...]
Governor Lingle’s main motive for supporting the Akaka bill, OHA, race-based entitlements, and Kamehameha Schools’ racially exclusionary admissions policy is her strong support for Zionism and her mistaken belief that the Hawaiian sovereignty movement is comparable to the struggle to establish and maintain a Jewish nation of Israel. See webpage
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