Posted on 07/04/2006 6:44:16 PM PDT by george76
Boston, as well as the state, has been losing population in the past few years.
If those numbers are confirmed by the 2010 federal census, Massachusetts could lose up to two congressional seats, as well as federal money for highway, education, and development programs that are tied to population.
Responding to concerns raised by the state's congressional delegation, local mayors, and Secretary of State William F. Galvin, lawmakers included $100,000 in the $25.7 billion state budget last week to pay a University of Massachusetts think tank to start researching the numbers to make sure that as many residents as possible are counted.
"Everyone is wringing their hands about how we're losing population," said Galvin, whose office will work with researchers at the Donahue Institute at UMass to try to track hard-to-locate populations.
``We want to do something about it, make sure every person who should be counted is counted. We're going to look in every nook and cranny in Massachusetts to count everybody who is here."
Mayor Thomas M. Menino said yesterday that the funding will allow the state to come up with its own population numbers and not have to rely on federal figures.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
All I can think of to say to you is..you obviously don't get to Boston,Cambridge,Brookline or Newton very much,do you?
It is not necessarily the population that determines government largess. Ask Senator Bird how many people are in West Virginia. Washington, D.C. has no voting representation in congress but does pretty well when it comes to budgets. How much did Massachusetts contribute to the Big Dig and how much did the rest of the country hand over? California just hocks itself to the gills
Where there is senority there is bucks.
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New York losing Congressional seats actually isn't as good a thing as it would seem on the surface. Democrats have a great shot at taking both state Houses and Spitzer will likely be governor during the next redistricting. The seats that will be lost will almost certainly be Republican.
A lot of Mass., Conn.,and N.Y., plates here this lovely weekend. Think they might stay? No sales tax and income tax!! I bet ya they will.
LOL!
"We're going to look in every nook and cranny in Massachusetts to count everybody who is here."
Uh yah, and every GRAVE MARKER!
Heck I live near Northampton, and I can barely stomach that! I avoid it like the plague.
Now that would be progress!
What ever happened to the idea of cheap/free university of Mass tuition for illegal immigrants ?
Did it pass ?
If Mass offers extra high welfare, food stamps, free health care, free housing ...they might attract many lazy bumbs to move there for the census period.
How about a few hundred filthy buggers from Gitmo? You only get to count them as long as you are willing to keep them, however.
They will fix this by making a law that you can be a citizen of Massachusetts without being a citizen of the United States. Illegals will flock there.
Your being located way out west explains your previous post.I suggest to you that a knowledge of the four cities/towns that I mentioned earlier is essential to truly understanding the politics of the state.
Although one could say that Northampton is a microcosm of Cambridge!
I don't think it has come to a vote yet.
LOL Indeed it is, GSC, indeed it is.
I'm doing my part. I escaped from MA with my wife, one daughter, and two granddaughters. Now we're working on an E&E plan for our son, daughter-in-law, and another granddaughter...
Let's figure out a way they could loose 2 senate seats!
That could get pretty nasty in Provincetown, although I'm sure there'd be plenty of volunteers with trained cranny-exploring hamsters.
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