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...Whether these census results accurately express a worsening economic situation in Cambridge or are an inflow of homeless persons from elsewhere in the state, the issue of homelessness remains a top priority for city officials. “Homelessness happens in the city,” said City Councillor Sam Seidel. “In Cambridge, it happens on Cambridge streets, which means that Cambridge resources must be directed to it. This is a Cambridge issue...
...into the events surrounding Meyers’ death has yielded information about the factors that led to the accident, it is still incomplete, This allows for the possibility that factors apart from those under the city’s control were the causes of Meyers’ death. But councillor Henrietta S. Davis said that no matter what the report determines is the cause of Meyers’ death, the council should pay attention to the residents’ concerns about pedestrian safety. “Regardless of the outcome, we can’t let the subject go away...
...hope that we could wire the whole city, that it would be an easy task to do,” said Councillor Henrietta J. Davis, the champion of the wireless Internet project. “But it turned out to be much more complicated...
Another public comment came from Cambridge City Councillor Craig A. Kelley, who has two children in the school district. “My wife and I would not want to have them any place else,” he said, lauding the “immense amount of good news about our public school system...
Disagreements about the Cambridge City Council’s relationship with the Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) brought heated debate to the Council’s weekly meeting last night. Councillor Marjorie C. Decker introduced a proposition requesting a “dollar-to-dollar review” of the funding that the Council provides to CHA, citing CHA’s lack of formal accountability to the Council and its recent decision to remove obstetrician-gynecologist services from three of its 12 neighborhood clinics. The Council approved Decker’s measure with an amendment requiring the city manager...