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...response of some city councilors to the black patrolmen's complaint angered community groups including the local chapter of the NAACP and the Cambridge Tenants Organizing Committee, as well as many white civic leaders. Council independents Daniel Clinton, Walter Sullivan and Thomas Danehy made public statements last month that led one civic group to charge "racism" in the city council...
...council is split between five conservative independents who generally back business and real estate and three Cambridge Civic Association councilors who take a middle of the road, protect-the-environment approach. Saundra Graham, a continually militant councilor, has formed her own political base, the Grass Roots Organization...
Cambridge has also joined the mass of communities across the nation who are fighting the expansion of the McDonald's quickie-hamburger chain. The Douglass Street Tenants' Association, a local civic group, asked the State Landmarks Commission to declare the pre-Civil War Greek revival building McDonald's planned to raze an official landmark. The city council temporarily held up the necessary building permits...
...While your report on the strike of some municipal employees in Baltimore [July 22] accurately presented some of the facts about the walkout, it failed to capture the sense of civic pride that was so strongly demonstrated by citizens and municipal employees during this period of potential crisis. Thousands of Baltimoreans transported their own refuse to the four large landfills that remained open throughout the strike. Also, 38,000 municipal employees continued to work-including a few who remained on duty for up to 50 straight hours to ensure that city services were maintained...
...This is my nomination for Asinine Article of the Year Award. Your choices may have been young agewise, but your "touchstone" for gauging their "social and civic impact" reflected the very old, male, white, elitist standards that have produced the leadership crisis you deplore...