CAMBRIDGE — Bill Barlow, a third year student at Harvard Law School, won't shy away from challenging student activists who are demanding the school erase any references to its slaveholding founder and insisting that students be forced to take classes taught from the Critical Race perspective.
Yet Barlow, who is white and grew up north of Los Angeles, is unique in the sense that he's the only student to publicly question recent demands by student activists.
BOSTON – The Massachusetts state income tax rate will fall slightly in January, the third-to-last step in the tax rate's odyssey from 5.95 percent in 1999 to its potential nadir two years from now at the voter-approved level of 5 percent.
Gov. Charlie Baker's budget office confirmed Tuesday that the last of the economic benchmarks needed to trigger the reduction had been met resulting in the automatic lowering of the tax rate on income to 5.1 percent, from 5.15 percent.
