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...their penultimate meeting of the year yesterday, Cambridge city councillors sparred over a proposal that could alter the balance of power between the council and the public school system. Councillors used the sometimes-emotional debate to position themselves for the January mayoral election, and two members—Kenneth E. Reeves ’72 and Henrietta Davis—openly declared their candidacies. The controversial proposal, authored by Councillor Anthony D. Galluccio, would have directed the city manager to examine whether it was legal for the City Council to pay for an outside audit of the School Department. Currently...
...this case,’” Mesereau said. “I looked at it purely in terms of what would help him.” Mesereau compared his treatment of racial issues in the Jackson case with another case he took, which involved a black city councillor from Compton, Calif. who was prosecuted following a corruption sting. He used racial arguments in that case, he said, because the evidence strongly indicated that race played a major role in the situation. He also attacked the media in its coverage of trials in general, complaining that the media routinely...
...forbids construction traffic—is part of the state-managed Charles River Reservation, the University appealed to the Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) to allow its trucks to travel along a 1,800-yard path before turning onto Cowperthwaite. But the Commonwealth ultimately denied that request. City Councillor Anthony D. Galluccio said he had expected that Harvard’s political clout would have prevailed on the DCR to obtain an exception. “The real disappointment was an assumption that...Harvard’s contacts at the state level” would have been enough...
...several challengers pushing for council seats, electoral success is far from guaranteed, even for the most seasoned of politicos.This past weekend, The Crimson followed three of this year’s council incumbents—Kennedy School of Government (KSG) student and current Vice Mayor Marjorie C. Decker, Councillor Brian P. Murphy ’86-’87, and Councillor Kenneth E. Reeves ’72—as they burned through the last of their shoe leather in hopes of snagging another council term. MARJORIE C. DECKER: Campaign at a CrossroadsFelix Arroyo, a member...
...September, Gordon modified a flyer claiming an endorsement from current City Councillor Kenneth E. Reeves ’72, after Reeves requested that his name be removed. Reeves is also running in Tuesday’s election...