Word: council
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have occurred differently. Only where there is evidence is there history, the Pulitzer-Prize-winning historian tells us. Thus it follows that if there is no evidence, there is no history. How many African tribes kept records at City Hall? Or better yet, how many American Indians kept council meeting notes? Does this mean that black and native Americans have no history? Is that why schoolchildren are repeatedly told Columbus discovered America when native Americans were here first...
...Monday's city council meeting, something went awry with the high school sound system and in the middle of a heated discussion, the voice of Donna Summer suddenly drowned out the councilors...
...jumped one of the council's most conservative members, veteran city politician Walter Sullivan, and one of its most liberal leaders, Saundra Graham, and for the two minutes the music lasted they boogied together to the cheers of their fellow councilors...
...this be? A new city political organization last week endorsed a slate of candidates simply because they would help "to depolarize" a disagreeable city council. Organizers of the new effort, Concerned Cambridge Citizens (CCC), said last week that members of the current council "can't even talk to each other...
...slate is also largely composed of council candidates who have taken stands against continued rent controls, with three notable exceptions. David Wylie, Francis Duehay, and challenger Alvin Thompson, all endorsed by the progressive Cambridge Civic Association, were also given...