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...council passed Galluccio's amendment, 5-4, and defeated two amendments proposed by Duehay to restore the force of the original proposal, by the same margin. The vote split along party lines, with Independent councillors siding with the restaurateurs and Cambridge Civic Association members supporting CUSP...
...slate of officers and a more compact executive board, the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) hopes to revitalize city politics and redefine itself now that rent control--for 25 years one of the group's key issues--is gone...
...Americans into hypermetropic policy wonks is compulsory voting. "A democracy shouldn't have a 'right not to vote," he argues. Furthermore, "passive" Americans who do not vote do not have the right to dispute the decisions of elected officials. This is what most Americans learn in basic high-school civic education, but it is exactly wrong. When we vote we tacitly agree to abide by the outcome of the election; when we don't vote, we make no such agreement. Personally, I do not think any Americans should lost their right to argue with elected officials; but if Altman...
Yeltsin: Theoretically, such a danger exists. We are only beginning to build our new democratic state and new economy. Given our history, these are extremely hard tasks, and we are forced to pursue both goals at the same time. We do not have any other options. A strong civic society, a middle class and a culture of law are basic conditions for a stable democracy in any country. But these preconditions are only taking shape in Russia. For these reasons, the danger of an authoritarian regime will exist here for some time yet. Two scenarios for sliding into authoritarianism...
Stop and Shop last year closed a store on Memorial Drive, leaving Purity Supreme as one of the only options to residents of Cambridgeport, Riverside and Area Four, according to Geneva T. Malenfant, vice president of the Neighborhood Coaliation and incoming president of the Cambridge Civic Association...