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🌱 Patch AM: How your North End rep is fighting a statewide income tax cut

Also check out Ballroom and Latin Dance Performance on the North End Patch calendar

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  • How your North End rep is fighting a statewide income tax cut

Also on today's calendar: Ballroom and Latin Dance Performance and 2 more events.

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Today's riddle: My brother swallowed a box of firecrackers. - Is he all right now? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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  • Thursday: Sun and areas of high clouds, with a high of 44 and low of 39 degrees.
  • Friday: Windy with rain, temps: high: 58, low: 28.
  • Saturday: Much colder, with a high of 37 and low of 34 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Beacon Hill Democrats bristle at proposed ballot question to lower the income tax (wbur.org) — North End residents’ own state representative, Aaron Michlewitz, is leading opposition to a proposed ballot question that would cut Massachusetts’ income tax rate from 5% to 4%. He and other top Beacon Hill budget officials warn the change could strip up to $4.8 billion from state revenues, forcing deep cuts or other tax hikes, while business advocates argue it’s needed to keep the state affordable.
   

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