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Across town, Paul C. Demakis ’75, the incumbent state representative from Boston??€™s Back Bay, resoundingly held off a challenge from upstart candidate and Cambridge City Councillor Marjorie C. Decker in that district’s Democratic primary...
...high school. On education, Galluccio cannot claim sole credit for restructuring Cambridge Rindge & Latin School, which was approved before he became mayor, or for changing the assignment plan to elementary schools, which the school committee approved unanimously. Barrios, an affordable-housing lawyer by profession, understands that solving Boston??€™s housing crisis requires a smart mix of demand- and supply-side answers, and carefully targeted spending that will benefit low- and middle-income families. In contrast, Galluccio waited more than six months before calling a meeting of the Cambridge City Council’s Housing Committee, which he chairs...
...across town another race has shaped up with its own potential to make or break the political career of a homegrown pol. Paul C. Demakis ’75, the incumbent state representative from Boston??€™s Back Bay, faces a tough challenge from upstart candidate and Cambridge City Councillor Marjorie C. Decker...
Similarly, the district for which Decker and Demakis struggle—newly redrawn—is about evenly split by the Charles River. It contains Boston??€™s tony Back Bay and Beacon Hill neighborhoods but 45 percent of the district falls in Cambridge’s more blue collar areas...
...BOSTON??€”Big science needs big money, and Harvard Medical School has plenty of both. Last year, over $185 million in research money poured into its sprawling laboratories in Boston and a dizzying number of scientific breakthroughs continue to pour out. Now, University President Lawrence H. Summers wants to capitalize on those breakthroughs by calling in the capitalists and using Harvard’s scientific might to foster a new Silicon Valley for the life sciences. The revolution in microchips will be followed by one in genes and proteins, Summers argues, and Harvard needs to be at the forefront...