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...Harvard lecturer has been brought into a dispute over increasing the presence of the police in Cambridge, revealing a rift between one city councillor and the police commissioner during yesterday’s City Council meeting...
...city manager, Robert W. Healy, and Cambridge Police Department’s commissioner, Ronnie Watson, told the council that the vast majority of the grant would pay police officers overtime for extra foot patrols. Councillor Marjorie C. Decker objected, however, saying that increasing police presence would not effectively reduce crime in Cambridge...
...Licensing Commission (CLC) in favor of loosening its Puritanical rules. For the past two decades, the CLC and its ally-in-arms, the Harvard Square Defense Fund (HSDF), have implemented draconian policies toward restaurants’ closing hours and their ability to serve liquor. Thankfully, Reeves and the city councillors seem to have awoken to the damaging effect those policies have had on the Square’s atmosphere and liveliness. Councillor Michael A. Sullivan told the roundtable discussion Monday, “We’ve eliminated the entertainment [in Harvard Square].” Reeves added...
...roundtable meeting about Cambridge’s liquor license policy yesterday, the city council encouraged the city’s license commission to make it easier for restaurants to serve alcohol. Councillors raised concerns that the current policy dissuades innovative young restaurateurs from opening in Cambridge and discourages the hip young crowd from spending time—and money—in the city. Liquor licenses for Cambridge restaurants are currently allocated according to a cap system established in 1986. This system delineates 15 “cap areas,” each of which is assigned a fixed number...
Cambridge City Councillor Marjorie Decker is no stranger to the military draft. During the Vietnam War, her father was drafted to fight while many others were able to evade service. So when Rep. Charles B. Rangel, D-N.Y., announced this Sunday that he wanted to bring back the draft for everyone 18 and over, it conjured mixed emotions for her. “In some ways, I resent the draft because there were a lot of people who could get out who were far more privileged,” Decker said. “At the same time, it?...