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VETERAN TAXPAYER ADVOCATE BARBARA ANDERSON DIES AT 73

Michael P. Norton4/9/16 7:29 PM

Barbara Anderson, who for 40 years fought to limit property taxes and resist tax-raising efforts within the Massachusetts Legislature, died on Friday after battling leukemia for several months. She was 73. Anderson was one of the authors of Proposition 2 1/2, the state law approved in 1980 that still serves as a check on property tax increases in Massachusetts' 351 cities and towns.

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