The Senate Committee on Ways and Means released its recommendations for the fiscal year 2009 budget yesterday, according to Sen. Richard T. Moore, D-Uxbridge. The $28.04 billion proposal works within the fiscal constraints of the lackluster economy to make targeted investments that will benefit the people of the Commonwealth. 

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By Matt Kakley
Milford Daily News

The town of Milford would receive a 10 percent increase in local aid and Franklin would receive an additional 7 percent under Gov. Deval Patrick's budget proposal.

Under the governor's spending plan, Franklin would receive more than $2 million in increased aid over this year's budget and Milford would get an additional $1.5 million.

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By Kyle Cheney, Michael Norton and Jim O'Sullivan
State House News Service

For Gov. Deval Patrick, year 2 is beginning to look a lot like year 1.

The Patrick administration, in its second annual budget proposal, again finds itself forced to close a projected $1 billion-plus budget gap, and is again daring a skeptical Legislature to produce $300 million in new revenues by adopting his proposal to increase corporate tax collections by closing several "loopholes" in the tax code.

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