‘Deflategate’ just won’t go away as NFL files appeal

‘Deflategate’ just won’t go away as NFL files appeal

Tom Brady's winning ways on the field keep eluding him in the courtroom, where it's still not game over for the saga widely known as Deflategate.

Commissioner Roger Goodell's lawyers late Monday filed an appeal of a federal district court judge's decision tossing out the National Football League chief's four-game suspension against the New England Patriots star quarterback. The ruling against Goodell was issued just days before the NFL season began and let Brady start his 16th year on the field with the team.

CLT questions claims made by backers of higher tax on millionaires
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CLT questions claims made by backers of higher tax on millionaires

State House News Service

STATE HOUSE — Opponents of a proposed additional income tax on millionaires claim the group pushing for a new tax on those with incomes above $1 million a year are potentially misleading voters with claims that new tax revenues will only be spent on transportation and education.

"You can't specify where the money's going in a ballot question. That's forbidden," Chip Faulkner of Citizens for Limited Taxation told the News Service Monday after CLT issued a press release asserting that supporters of the tax "can just as honestly promise a unicorn for every family, a pot of gold at the end of every rainbow."

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