Word: councilor
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...credit, the Cambridge City Council has not ignored all the commotion. Councilor David Sullivan initiated an official review of the city's traditional creche sponsorship, and the city manager's office is expected to respond with a recommendation by Monday. Quick action is in order. Cambridge should dissociate itself with the Brattle Square Nativity display in keeping with the Rhode Island ruling and the blunt First Amendment stipulation prohibiting government activity "respecting an establishment of religion." Designed to prevent Congress or municipalities from advocating a particular spiritual belief, that passage clearly requires a city to refrain from even tacit endorsement...
...Councilor David E. Sullivan, who brought the matter before the council, said he has received complaints about the decoration from "several individuals...
...hearing, Councilor Thomas W. Danchy expressed concern that the revaluation would equalize the current differences between taxes on residential and commercial property. Business and industrial properties now bear a disproportionate amount of Cambridge's tax burden...
...other activity, the council unanimously passed a resolution congratulating Councilor Saundra Graham for being named one of 10 "women of the year" by the Boston chapter of the National Organization for Women...
...City Councilor Francis H. Duehay '55 said yesterday that "it would have been good to have [the library] in Cambridge in the sentimental sense. But it would have created too many problems...