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  • Court Order Prevails over Public Records Request

    May 12, 2011 — Legal
    By James Crowley, Esq., DLS, Bureau of Municipal Finance Law

  • Municipal Health Insurance Reform Remains Hot Topic

    April 7, 2011 — Commentary
    By Robert Nunes, DLS Deputy Commissioner & Director of Municipal Affairs

  • Taxpayer Loses Lawsuit But Keeps Farm

    March 31, 2011 — Legal
    By James Crowley, Esq., DLS, Bureau of Municipal Finance Law

  • Moving Cities and Towns onto “The Cloud”

    March 3, 2011 — Commentary
    By Robert Nunes, DLS Deputy Commissioner & Director of Municipal Affairs

  • Equalized Valuations Finalized for 2012 & 2013 pdf format of eqv

    March 24, 2011 - Donna Demirai & Marilyn Browne, Bureau of Local Assessment

  • Gov.'s Budget Reforms and Ends Structural Deficit

    February 3, 2011 — Commentary
    By Robert Nunes, DLS Deputy Commissioner & Director of Municipal Affairs

  • Tidal Flats Case Leaves Appellants High and Dry

    January 20, 2011 — Legal
    By James Crowley, Esq., DLS, Bureau of Municipal Finance Law

  • Storming Out of 2010 and into State Budget Season

    January 6, 2011 — Commentary
    By Robert Nunes, DLS Deputy Commissioner & Director of Municipal Affairs

  • RFR - Public Health District Incentive Grant Program doc format of RFR - Public Health District Incentive Grant...

    December 28, 2010 — Special Contribution
    By Geoff Wilkinson, Senior Policy Advisor, Dept. Public Health

  • New State Incentive Grant Program To Fund Regional Public Health Districts

    December 16, 2010 — Special Contribution
    By Geoff Wilkinson, Senior Policy Advisor, Dept. Public Health

  • The Future of Small Town Computing: A "Cloud" or a "Digital Divide"? pdf format of The Future of Small Town Computing: A "Cloud"...

    December 9, 2010 — Technology
    By David L. Davies, DLS Director of Information Technology

  • Data Critical to Good Decision Making

    December 2, 2010 — Commentary
    By Robert Nunes, DLS Deputy Commissioner & Director of Municipal Affairs

  • Residence Built on Farmland Exempt from Penalty Tax

    November 25, 2010 — Legal
    By James Crowley, Esq., DLS, Bureau of Municipal Finance Law

  • Tis the Season for Property Revals and Tax Rates!

    November 4, 2010 — Commentary
    By Robert Nunes, DLS Deputy Commissioner & Director of Municipal Affairs

  • State House Notes Turns 100 and Becomes Free

    October 21, 2010 — Special Contribution
    By Nick DeChillo, DLS Intern

  • Charitable Occupancy

    October 14, 2010 — Legal
    By James Crowley, Esq., DLS, Bureau of Municipal Finance Law

  • Senior Circuit Breaker Tax Credit, Municipal Tax Amnesty Program, Offer Tools for Taxpayers and Town Treasuries

    October 7, 2010 — Commentary
    By Robert Nunes, DLS Deputy Commissioner & Director of Municipal Affairs

  • What Is Manufacturing?

    September 23, 2010 — Legal
    By James Crowley, Esq., DLS, Bureau of Municipal Finance Law

  • Survey Shows Wide Support for Regionalization

    September 2, 2010 — Commentary
    By Robert Nunes, DLS Deputy Commissioner & Director of Municipal Affairs

  • Court Rejects Bid Challenge: High School Construction Continues

    August 26, 2010 — Legal
    By James Crowley, Esq., DLS, Bureau of Municipal Finance Law

  • Fiscal 2010 Average Single-Family Tax Bills and Assessed Values

    August 12, 2010 — Focus
    By Terry Williams, Bureau of Accounts and James Paquette, Bureau of Local Assessment

  • Check Out the New Municipal Relief Act!

    August 5, 2010 — Commentary
    By Robert Nunes, DLS Deputy Commissioner & Director of Municipal Affairs

  • Certification Year Reshuffle

    July 22, 2010 — Focus
    By Marilyn H. Browne, Chief of Local Assessment, and Donna Demirai, Assessment Bureau

  • What Kind of Services are You Sharing?

    July 1, 2010 — Commentary
    By Robert Nunes, DLS Deputy Commissioner & Director of Municipal Affairs

  • Tips for Civil Service Communities Facing Layoffs

    June 24, 2010 — Special Contribution
    By John M. Marra, General Counsel for Massachusetts' Human Resources Division

  • Charting a Route for Charter Change

    June 18, 2010 — Special Contribution
    By Stephen McGoldrick, Collins Center for Public Management, UMass Boston; Marilyn Contreas, Department of Housing and Community Development; and Michael Ward, Collins Center

  • Municipalities Compete for Green Community Grants

    June 3, 2010 — Commentary
    By Robert Nunes, DLS Deputy Commissioner & Director of Municipal Affairs

  • Central Valuation of Wireline Telephone Personal Property

    May 20, 2010 — Special Contribution
    By George E. Sansoucy, P.E.

  • DLS Completes Police and Communications Regionalization Study

    May 13, 2010 — Regionalization
    By Zack Blake, Technical Assistance Section

  • Overseeing Lawrence

    May 6, 2010 — Commentary
    By Robert Nunes, DLS Deputy Commissioner & Director of Municipal Affairs

  • Tax Status of Leased Historic Property

    April 21, 2010 — Legal
    By James Crowley, Esq., DLS, Bureau of Municipal Finance Law

  • Classification of Property in Holbrook

    April 8, 2010 — Legal
    By James Crowley, Esq., DLS, Bureau of Municipal Finance Law

  • Partnering with Lawrence

    April 1, 2010 — Commentary
    By Robert Nunes, DLS Deputy Commissioner & Director of Municipal Affairs

  • Form of List and Assessment Date are Missing Ingredients in Restaurant's ATB Case

    March 25, 2010 — Legal
    By James Crowley, Esq., DLS, Bureau of Municipal Finance Law

  • 2010 Storm and Flood Recovery Process for Affected Municipalities and Residents

    March 18, 2010 — Special Contribution
    From the Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety & Security

  • A Collection of Municipal Relief Proposals

    March 4, 2010 - Commentary By Robert Nunes, DLS Deputy Commissioner & Director of Municipal Affairs

  • Local Officials Directory Five Years Later

    February 25, 2010 — Technology
    By David L. Davies, Director of Information Technology
    Division of Local Services

  • Ski Crash Wins Silver for Teacher-Chaperone

    February 18, 2010 — Legal
    By James Crowley, Esq., DLS, Bureau of Municipal Finance Law

  • Farmland Valuation in Massachusetts under Chapter 61A

    February 11, 2010 — Special Contribution
    By Daniel Lass, Department of Resource Economics,
    University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • Governor's Budget for FY2011 Supports Cities and Towns

    February 4, 2010 — Commentary
    By Robert Nunes, DLS Deputy Commissioner & Director of Municipal Affairs

  • Vendor Takes Licking in Road Salt Procurement Case

    January 28, 2010 — Legal
    By James Crowley, Esq., DLS, Bureau of Municipal Finance Law

  • A First Look at Local Option Meals Excise Adoptions

    January 21, 2010 — Municipal Databank Highlight
    By Lisa Juszkiewicz, DLS, Municipal Databank Director

  • Golf Course Recreational Classification Declared Out of Bounds

    January 14, 2010 — Legal
    By James Crowley, Esq., DLS, Bureau of Municipal Finance Law

  • City and Town Turns a (Web) Page

    January 7, 2010 — Commentary
    By Robert Nunes, DLS Deputy Commissioner & Director of Municipal Affairs

  • Conservation Restrictions and Real Property Taxation

    January 7, 2010 — Special Contribution
    By Joan Youngman, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

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