Bay State officials initially denied 235 of 274 rate increases proposed by insurers last year.
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They met through a shared interest in ice skating, and both competed with the Bay State Speedskating Club in Massachusetts.
And the rate of unnecessary ER admissions has remained steady at 15% even after universal health coverage passed in the bay state.
Health-insurance premiums in the Bay State have risen significantly faster than the national average, according to the Commonwealth Fund, a nonprofit health foundation.
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Business taxes would also rise under the Patrick revenue raid, and Bay State residents would pay higher gas taxes, turnpike tolls and car taxes.
Bay State legislators were inspired to subsidize filmmaking last year when Martin Scorsese filmed most of his new crime drama, The Departed, in New York.
"The cleanest thing to do is to sell the stock back to the brokerage firm or to a third party, " says Gregory Pinto, a financial planner with Bay State Financial in Boston.
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, and leaders from technology firms, venture capital and research universities recently announced a joint effort to position the Bay State as a hub for job creation in data science.
New Hampshire's tax phobia even influenced Taxachusetts to the south, where popular pressure has made the Bay State much more reasonable (compared with the rest of the Northeast) in its income tax--which is flat--as well as its property taxes.
Last week, as I wrote, it was revealed Massachusetts demanded the company stop including alcohol in its deals, citing violations of various liquor laws in the state, primarily the discounting drinks, which has long been banned in the Bay State.
The agency says the Chesapeake Bay Program, a federal-state partnership that coordinates bay restoration efforts, will decide how the information will be used.
But despite Fox's assurances that the bay would be returned to its previous state, locals said the bay suffered badly from erosion after 1999's monsoon season.
Running mate Joe Biden was in Green Bay, Wisconsin, a state that's leaning toward Obama, according to CNN's electoral map.
"It's still sort of a Band-Aid, stopgap measure, to keep state regulators at bay until they can come up with a new framework, " agrees Passmore.
Bay Meadows, Bowie, Garden State, Hialeah, Longacres, Narragansett, so many more, open no more.
Dalrymple Bay, which is fed by state-owned railways, may be congested, but Port Hedland, in western Australia, certainly is not.
Baha'i spokesman Farhad Sabetan, who teaches economics at California State University, East Bay, said that while Baha'is are not allowed to serve as military officers, they were recruited to serve as low-level privates in the Iran-Iraq war.
Sandbags are also being handed out in the state capital Brisbane, where bay areas are especially vulnerable from tidal surges.
Following Cornwall Council's recommendation, the Secretary of State will now consider the Carlyon Bay application.
Mr. WINTER: That area, of course, which is one of the beautiful and historic spots in our state, the Gulf Coast from Bay St.
That may be why one future colleague in Cardiff Bay rued the idea of a Secretary of State who "shows contempt for the Assembly".
An Oct. 18 article in the Bay Area edition about the legal tussle overstated the state's power under the new law.
England go into Wednesday's game at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth amid concerns about the state of its pitch.
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Well, just this weekend, former Secretary of State Colin Powell urged that the Guantanamo Bay facility for holding enemy combatants should be closed immediately.
And even if we happen to locate a suspicious undeclared site, the cwc allows the challenged state to keep the international inspectors at bay for a week, during which time evidence can be destroyed.
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After Buffalo surprised nearly everyone by picking Florida State's EJ Manuel as the only QB in the first round (at No. 16), the next to go was West Virginia's Geno Smith by the New York Jets in the second round, at No. 39, and North Carolina State's Mike Glennon by Tampa Bay in the third round, at No. 73.
Brown County (Green Bay) and the nearby Fox River Valley make up the state's third major battleground.
Good piece here on how San Francisco Bay Area millionaires are taking their gold out of the Golden State.
Certain sewage-treatment plants were damaged, and untreated sewage flowed into the river and then into Narragansett Bay, forcing a ban on shellfish-fishing throughout the state.
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The San Francisco Business Times noted recently that Bay Area millionaires are starting to take their gold out of the Golden State.
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