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...government. But few places bring quite as much passion to the day-to-day problems of city life as Cambridge does. Case-in-point: the rat problem. Though the councillors themselves have rarely delved into discussions of the city’s rodent infestation in the past two years, citizen speakers are often eager to bring the pest problem to the councillors’ attention. The Cambridge Department of Public Works (DPW) operates a rat hotline, where citizens can report rat sightings or get help keeping rats from entering their house. DPW also has a Web site with frequently asked...
...ignore. Every movie we've all made has a message. Maybe we don't choose to think about it that way, but every time I go on a press junket to Europe or Japan or China even, people ask questions that presume you have a feeling as a citizen about the events in your country and beyond...
...pressure is providing impetus to attempt new things. Back at headquarters, Wal-Mart is also trying to improve its standing as a corporate citizen. The company has overhauled its wage-and-benefits package and rolled out an ambitious sustainability program that even cynics are praising. Using its negotiating muscle against rising health-care costs, the company expanded the number of drugs available in its $4 generic-prescription program to 361 drug products...
...easy to see the achievement gap as a physical fissure, the distance from the Harvard T stop to the less pampered subway stations on the other end of the Red Line. Crossing that fissure cost about two dollars, and no matter how often I visited Dorchester, I remained a citizen of Harvard’s side...
...fact that the American media are still far too interested in the horse race and not interested enough in asking citizens what issues matter to them in coverage,” said Miller, who is executive editor of The Post Register newspaper in Idaho Falls, Idaho. “A paper should be going out and talking to citizens first, and building campaign coverage around citizen attitudes about certain issues...