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Rally touts bill to ban alcohol ads on all state property

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January 27, 2012|By Matt Rocheleau

Dozens of young people joined legislative and medical leaders yesterday in downtown Boston to rally support for a bill that would ban alcohol advertising on all state property.

State Representative Martin J. Walsh said he is “very confident’’ that the measure, which he is cosponsoring, would pass the House and Senate and become law by July 31.

The movement gained a boost this week when the MBTA said that, beginning July 1, it would prohibit alcohol ads from appearing on all of its property, including inside subway cars, trains and buses.

Pols homing in on absentee landlords

Weigh fines for owners of ‘nuisance’ properties

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Boston Herald
By Dave Wedge
Monday, May 16, 2011

Frustrated Hub politicians are calling for a crackdown on absentee landlords they say are cashing in on taxpayer-funded Boston rents while escaping to the suburbs and ignoring drug- and violence-plagued properties.

MASS. MARKET: Retailers head to Beacon Hill to take on Amazon.com

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The Patriot Ledger
By Jon Chesto
Posted Apr 01, 2011

BOSTON — After 15 years of watching Amazon.com eat away a growing share of their revenue, merchants in Massachusetts are fighting back at the State House.

The Retailers Association of Massachusetts plans to unveil its “Main Street Fairness Coalition” at a legislative hearing Thursday. The trade group spent much of the past week drumming up support for the coalition, whose primary purpose will be to promote legislation aimed at forcing Amazon and other online-only retailers to collect sales taxes.

Group home beating in ’04 highlights agencies’ hurdles

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By Dave Wedge
Thursday, April 7, 2011

The violent 2004 beating of a Dorchester social worker at the hands of a hulking group home resident with a rap sheet sparked a lawsuit that provides a snapshot into the stiff challenges faced by state-contracted human service agencies in dealing with dangerous clients.