Word: councilor
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...fact that progress is taking place is indisputable. Candidate Flynn last fall found a sympathetic audience when he argued that what ailed Roxbury was what ailed Southie. "In South Boston everybody thinks that because of affirmative action the Blacks are getting everything," then-councilor Flynn told The Globe in 1982. "Everybody thinks that because people in South Boston are white, they're getting everything. The reality is that neither one is getting anything...
Reluctant to address any controversial legislation with Mayor Leonard I Russell and Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci visiting Cambridge's sister city in Japan, the members of the city government still in the country last night simply tabled important measures that arose...
...last week councilors had also put off discussion of controversial legislation since both Councilor David E. Sullivan and Councilor Walter J. Sullivan were absent from the chamber on vacation...
...ordinance, however, did not pass without controversy. Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci lobbied hard to exempt businesses that had installed air-freshening devices or smoke eaters", from the retractions Opposition to the ordinance among local restaurant owners and managers came mainly from those who had installed the expensive systems...
State and national officials said the practice of not properly indicating a poll's affiliation is legal, though ethical questions may still remain. "There's no law at all on the subject," said City Councilor David E. Sullivan, attorney for the Secretary of State's office, which oversees Massachusetts elections...