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Mass. Lt. Gov. To Champion Municipal Interests

Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito began a statewide tour to visit mayors and local officials at Holyoke City Hall where she met  with Mayor Alex Morse.
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Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito began a statewide tour to visit mayors and local officials at Holyoke City Hall where she met with Mayor Alex Morse.
Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito began a statewide tour to visit mayors and local officials at Holyoke City Hall where she met  with Mayor Alex Morse.
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Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito began a statewide tour to visit mayors and local officials at Holyoke City Hall where she met with Mayor Alex Morse.

The Baker Administration is seeking to strengthen ties between state government and local municipalities in Massachusetts.

       Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito, who is the administration’s primary liaison to cities and towns, began a statewide tour Thursday to visit mayors and other officials.  Her first stop: Holyoke City Hall for a meeting with Mayor Alex Morse.  She offered assurances that when the administration takes steps within days to close a projected $765 million state budget gap, cities and towns will not be burdened.

      " We will not re-balance this budget on the backs of the cities and towns. We will protect local aid," she declared.

       Polito pointed out the administration released $100 million in local highway funds that had been held back by former Gov. Deval Patrick.

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Paul Tuthill is WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief. He’s been covering news, everything from politics and government corruption to natural disasters and the arts, in western Massachusetts since 2007. Before joining WAMC, Paul was a reporter and anchor at WRKO in Boston. He was news director for more than a decade at WTAG in Worcester. Paul has won more than two dozen Associated Press Broadcast Awards. He won an Edward R. Murrow award for reporting on veterans’ healthcare for WAMC in 2011. Born and raised in western New York, Paul did his first radio reporting while he was a student at the University of Rochester.

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