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...heart of Central Square at 649 Mass Ave., volunteers for the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA)--the good-government municipal slate that has controlled the City Council for the past two years--are working overtime preparing press releases, organizing flyer campaigns and plotting political strategy...
...stake on November 5 will be the CCA's newly-won control of the municipal government. Two years ago, promising to defend rent-control, control development and reform government excesses, the 50-year-old CCA won its biggest election victory ever, taking five of the nine council seats. A sixth councillor sympathetic with many CCA causes--Timothy J. Toomey Jr.--also won election. The last time the CCA ran City Hall...
...four Independents on the council--a loose coalition that usually opposes the policies of the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) majority--complained that they did not have time to examine the compromise bill that was given to them moments before the meeting's scheduled start time. The interim freeze passed the council, 5-4, despite their objections...
...while change has been slow to come, CCA backers still maintain that the new majority has vastly improved on its predecessor...
...while some CCA-backed councillors acknowledge that their first five months have not seen the type of drama that was the hallmark of their predecessors, they say that their accomplishments have more substance and less flash...