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...most important thing we need to do is to dismantle the BRA,” said Natasha Perez, a spokeswoman for City Councilor Michael F. Flaherty, Jr., Menino’s challenger. “We need separate planning agencies: one focused on planning and one on economic development and workforce development. What tends to happen is that in the rush for economic development, planning and communities are steamrolled...
...City Councilor Sam Yoon, Flaherty’s running mate, had also championed such reforms in his own campaign until losing in the preliminary elections last month...
...decision to build this thing cannot be called corrupt in any regular sense," says Sergei Malkov, a city councilor and one of the three members of the St. Petersburg land-use committee to vote against the plan. (Eleven voted in favor and one abstained.) "Gazprom is not the kind of organization that bribes or corrupts people from the bottom. It pushes through its initiatives from the very top," Malkov tells TIME. (Read "Russia-Europe Gas Spat Ends...
...Alexander Karpov, director of the EKOM Center, says there is no economic reason for Gazprom to mar the cityscape. It could easily house its offices, he says, in a building that follows the city's rules for architectural preservation. The land-use committee's vote last week, which city councilor Malkov calls a "farce," granted the Okhta Center a unique exemption to these rules, approving a design four times taller than is normally permitted. (See pictures of Russia celebrating Victory...
...It’s very good for democracy to have a contested mayoral contest,” said former City Councilor Lawrence S. DiCara ’71, who continues to follow Boston politics closely. “Because we’ve had arguably two viable candidates and one gadfly [in addition to Menino], people have focused on this race over the summer. It’s the first time that’s happened since...