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.
Let's see -- this provision is called the Bay State of Denial.
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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.
Because other states look to Massachusetts where students overall routinely rank at the top of national and international tests for lessons on academic achievement and innovation, the Bay State's policies on charter schools are being followed closely, former Florida education commissioner Gerard Robinson told charter advocates gathered in Boston recently.
The program is a case study in how jobs often override ideology in shaping congressional constituencies: former Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy supported the GE engine with sizable earmarks, and so does his Republican successor Scott Brown even though the Boston Globe found the engine would only produce a few hundred jobs in the Bay State, won largely at the expense of neighboring Connecticut.
The agency says the Chesapeake Bay Program, a federal-state partnership that coordinates bay restoration efforts, will decide how the information will be used.
The survey results were released by the Chesapeake Bay Program, a federal-state partnership that coordinates bay restoration efforts among the six states in the watershed Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Delaware and New York and the District of Columbia.
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.
Tell them that the cells at Guantanamo Bay are roughly the same size as state penitentiaries in this country and that their conception of legality is seriously flawed.
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.
Guantanamo Bay also threatens to create new enemies of the state and diminish the country's moral standing in the world, Obama said, revisiting a campaign promise he made before his first term.
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