Mayor Bill Finch is scheduled to host his next public budget presentation Thursday, 6 p.m. at the North End Library Branch, 3455 Madison Avenue. City
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Bill Finch’s Masterful Rejoinders–Sagging Grand List Is Real Culprit In Budget Pain
Mayor Bill Finch has a special talent for sounding like he knows what he’s talking about even when he’s not really sure. That takes practice
Read moreFinch Pitches Tax Increase In The Rock–Historic Opportunity For Schools: “I Never Asked This Before”
Facing a sometimes restrained, sometimes frustrated crowd, Mayor Bill Finch addressed a jam-packed audience Wednesday night at the Black Rock Library Branch to explain why
Read moreOuch! New Twist On Taxpayer Pain
Daniel Pizarro, say those who know him, owns several properties in the city. And soon he’ll be paying thousands of dollars more in taxes if
Read moreGrogins: We Will Lose Good Residents If Taxes Continue To Increase–Foster To Finch: Show Some Respect
State Rep. Auden Grogins and Mary-Jane Foster, Mayor Bill Finch’s Democratic primary opponent last year, are not happy about the mayor’s proposed tax increase. Grogins, whose
Read moreWalker: Unfunded Obligations Could Bankrupt City
Opposing a property tax increase, Black Rock resident David Walker, the former U.S. Comptroller General, writes in a letter to City Council President Tom McCarthy,
Read moreFinch Disses Black Rock: ‘Those People Have Got To Stop Complaining About Their Taxes’–Will Voters Complain About Mayoral Power In November?
Mayor Bill Finch is a hoot. Leave it up to the mayor to puke up verbally what’s in his head. Five months into his second
Read moreSimon Says … Tune In To Sonny Fox And Lombard Show
Get ready for the back talk. OIB posters John Marshall Lee and Andy Fardy will be guests of those two grumpy warriors Jim “Sonny” Fox
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