• Gov.’s budget level-funds municipal aid
• Effort to revive historic district nears fruition
• Summer program created for homeless kids
• Towns formed coalition to monitor affordable housing
• Recycling council honors 21 cities and towns
• Programs help homeless families find housing
• Melrose set to serve as data hub for other municipalities
• Governor Releases Fiscal 2013 Budget and Local Aid Plan
• Governor’s FY13 state budget to mirror current year’s
• Communities seek flexibility in rules for veterans’ services
• Hearing on open meeting law regs is Jan. 19
• Hosts sought for visiting public administrators from Pakistan
• Water infrastructure finance group approves plan
• Water rate ballot initiative dies
• Gov. appoints chair of gaming commission
• Web form helps monitor coyote population
• Northampton refines mailbox policy
• Successful artist-run project in Pittsfield comes to an end
• Foxborough seeks approval for public inebriation bylaw
• Budget season begins with revenue hearing
• Court rejects public contract rules
• Communities take different paths to health savings
• Local-option law extends paid leave for organ donors
• Transport funding stalls in Congress
• MTF report: Municipalities mired in worst 2-year stretch in 3 decades
• Six months after tornado, recovery continues
• Solar project includes made-in-U.S. provision
• Needham wins ‘Voice of the People’ award
• Landfill revenue helps enable new library
• New division leads to savings, revenue
• Veterans issues are topic at STAM meeting
• Managers participate in leadership program
• DEP seeks to modify organic waste rules
• Contract can protect against liability for school use
• CPA funding gap unresolved
• At hearing, MMA cites value of Green Communities Act
• FY13 budget-building process under way
• Governor signs law reinstating ‘evergreen’ clause
• Governor signs casino law
• Pension reform bill passes

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