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...entering the world of politics across the river as well. Tuesday’s Boston City Council election pits Gregory J. Glennon, a 32-year-old assistant district attorney, against Mark S. Ciommo, a lifelong resident who has been active in community service. The winner will replace Boston City Councillor Jerry P. McDermott, who announced in May that he would not be seeking reelection. Last month, Harvard received approval from the city for a 589,000-square-foot science complex, slated to house Harvard’s Stem Cell Institute. The project is the first part of a 50-year...
Quality-of-life issues are the task of any local government. But few places bring quite as much passion to the day-to-day problems of city life as Cambridge does. Case-in-point: the rat problem. Though the councillors themselves have rarely delved into discussions of the city’s rodent infestation in the past two years, citizen speakers are often eager to bring the pest problem to the councillors’ attention. The Cambridge Department of Public Works (DPW) operates a rat hotline, where citizens can report rat sightings or get help keeping rats from entering their...
...benefit from the doors that have been opened for you, but ultimately you have to stand on your own two feet,” says Michael A. Sullivan, Eddie’s cousin and a veteran city councillor whose recent retirement prompted Eddie...
...Lazarides Gallery, Banksy's primary distributor, says that Banksy's work shows that "his generation are not the apathetic and unfeeling demographic they are made out to be." Others denounce him as a criminal. Abdal Ullah, a councillor in the London borough of Tower Hamlets, where Banksy's recent mural was painted, has said: "Graffiti is a crime. It spoils the environment, makes our neighborhoods feel less safe, and costs thousands of pounds each year to clean." Banksy has, like Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring did in New York decades ago, succeeded in elevating street art from a subculture...
...City Councillor Henrietta Davis, who was on the council when it first considered making the area a historic landmark, urged the commission to initiate a new study to protect the area...