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Michael Flaherty, a Boston city councillor at-large who is rumored to be weighing a bid against Menino in next year’s mayoral election, criticized the timing of the move...
...compromise measure that would add “Halberstam” as an honorary name to the street but would leave the official designation as Plympton St. “The compromise of not renaming but creating an honorific sign system is a good one,” said councillor Henrietta Davis. “It allows us to keep the past in the present and to honor people of later generations as well.” But councillor David P. Maher said the council needed to examine this proposal more closely with the Cambridge Historical Commission and the local...
...will not renew its five-year lease, and no new lessee has been found, City Manager Robert W. Healy said at Monday’s Cambridge City Council meeting. “The city has every right to get a reasonable rent for that property,” Councillor Sam Seidel said. “But the newspaper business is changing.” The City Manager’s office will now begin soliciting bids from new lessees, but according to Healy, Hudson News will not be among them. In the meantime, the Council authorized Healy to modify...
...report. Community Policing Grant, which allows the Cambridge Police Department to fund various local policing strategies, had its funding decreased by 25 percent as well. “We have no control over the cuts the state has made,” said Timothy J. Toomey, a city councillor and a state representative. “I think every agency is going to share the pain,” he added. Murphy said it is very unlikely that the city is going to fully replace the state funding with its own financial support in the future. He added that...
...potentially tension—between university affiliates and residents might only increase.Lesley plans to build a new art facility in Porter Square, and also hopes to take over several buildings that currently belong to the Episcopal Divinity School, located just west of Harvard in the Brattle Square neighborhood.City Councillor Sam Seidel, while applauding Lesley’s growth, said he has some reservations. “We’ve got to be very careful—we’ve already got two world-famous universities in the city who are major landholders,” said Seidel...