Word: civic
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...SHADOWIn a city of popular politicians with a strong hold on voter loyalty, DeBergalis found his niche two years ago by creating his own constituency.Students are a demographic long ignored by Cambridge pols, considered by most observers to be a transient group with little interest in the civic goings-on of their temporary home. DeBergalis cast aside this conventional wisdom and embraced students as an untapped resource, canvassing dormitories at Harvard and MIT and shaping his platform around student-friendly issues such as late-night restaurant hours and bicycle safety. A month before Election Day in 2003, longtime local pundit...
...fifth. Reeves says that despite being a council veteran, he’s always seeking out new voters.“You are always introducing yourself to people who are new,” he says.Reeve’s Friday schedule is packed with both civic and campaign events—a funeral; two visits to senior facilities; a meeting with representatives of Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, king of the Asante people of Ghana; the CCTV interview; and, during the evening, two parties.Earlier this week, he says, he campaigned door-to-door in every unit of three 22-story...
...under the rug and say, ‘Hey, it was a big, emotional game for them,’ but they deserved to win,” said Crimson coach Ted Donato ’91. The Bobcats’ conference opener was staged in the Hartford Civic Center, and Howe has lent his name to Quinnipiac as it climbs the rungs of the hockey ladder, trading in Atlantic Hockey for the ECAC. Just over a minute in, as the Bobcats student section wrapped a sea of yellow around Harvard goaltender Justin Tobe, Quinnipiac took its first-ever ECAC...
...legend Gordie Howe, 77, dropped the ceremonial first puck Friday in the Hartford Civic Center, delighting a crowd that had long mourned the departure of city’s NHL Whalers...
...public source, the Bank of America’s website, and the Bank of America got it wrong, and what [the assessor] was pointing out was the errors that the Bank of America made,” he says. Such inconsistencies, he adds, are rooted in a lack of civic transparency...