Pole tax revenue provides relief

The 2009 repeal of a state law that exempted telephone companies from paying property taxes on telephone poles and wires over public ways continues to reap financial rewards for cities and towns across the state. But while the extra revenue is helping to offset a recent round of cuts in state aid, the money isn’t enough to completely alleviate municipalities’ ongoing monetary headaches, say officials in cities and towns across the western suburbs “I suppose it’s not much, but when the town is struggling, that’s an employee or two, so that’s good,’’ said Stow's Assessor Dorothy Wilbur. [Full Article: Boston Globe]