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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although several systems of voting--including those used in most European countries--are a form of PR, the variant that American cities have historically used is the one Cambridge employs--the single transferable ballot...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Beyond the Mainstream: Cambridge's | 11/7/1989 | See Source »

...right, a coalition of Independent council hopefuls have joined with Councillor William H. Walsh to form the "Today's Independents" slate. The slate's members are unified by their support of Proposition 1-2-3, a ballot referendum that would drastically alter rent control...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Beyond the Mainstream: Cambridge's | 11/7/1989 | See Source »

Wolf said the unusually high number of candidates vying for the nine council positions--28 will appear on today's ballot--made the campaign a particularly arduous...

Author: By Michael P. Mann, | Title: Council Readies for Election | 11/7/1989 | See Source »

LAST week, my absentee ballot came in the mail. I thought about Republican Kiernan and his resource recovery plants and his relatives on the payroll and his 10 a.m. meetings. But then I thought of Zwirn, his panderings, his personal grudges and his neurotic campaigning. What kind of town supervisor would...

Author: By Brian R. Hecht, | Title: Fear and Loathing on Long Island | 11/7/1989 | See Source »

LANDLORDS and the real estate industry have been trying to whittle away at Cambridge's rent control law for the past 20 years. But none of these attempts have been as sly as the Cambridge ballot initiative known as Proposition 1-2-3. Proponents have used misinformation and deception to obscure the real issue--rent control--that the referendum addresses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Say No to 1-2-3 | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

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