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...issue of the City Manager is probably the most important one the new council will face. The City Manager Robert W. Healy's contract is up for extension next year and Triantafillou was one of his major opponents. Under the current weak mayor system, the manager is more powerful than the council. He writes regulations and controls public works, public safety and city financing. Healy has successfully navigated the turbulent waters of city politics for 18 years, but he has fallen out of favor with several city councillors because of his lack of action to secure low-cost housing...
...soon courted by Lowell Bergman, a "60 Minutes" producer, about a possible tobacco-related story. Wigand is the highest-ranking tobacco insider to ever step forward; he knows every dirty little secret about what exactly companies put into cigarettes, and it's not pretty. Dogged by a confidentiality contract, Wigand is at first reluctant to talk; Bergman coaxes him into talking to "60 Minutes," in the interest of the health of the American people, and Wigand finally agrees...
...shark pinyata in tow and mariachi music accompanying them, Harvard janitors marched with over 150 protesters in a Living Wage Campaign rally yesterday, two days before beginning negotiations with the University over a new contract...
...janitors' current contract expires on November 15. Marc LaBella, the attorney negotiating for the janitors, said that he hopes to have a "fair contract" by then...
Several councillors have said it is time for a new face to take the helm of Cambridge's municipal bureaucracy. The City Council has the power to make this change by deciding not to extend his contract in Fall...