Word: councilor
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...parking woes for municipal officials are not self-contained in D.C. Here in Boston, City Councilor Chuck Turner, who represents Roxbury, spent his summer try to stave off his seventh license suspension. Turner has been issued 31 parking tickets since January 2001. His RMV record runs five pages long. His most recent scuffle with law enforcement comes from the fact that he is driving a beat-up Chrysler that has failed its inspection. But this is nothing new for Turner, who has been known on several occasions to drive with an expired or revoked license. In addressing these violations...
...move a few days before in a meeting punctuated by slides of soiled toilet paper deposited near the camps and a local booster’s accusation that the Housing Assistance Corporation “attracted” homeless people to Hyannis with its services. It was town councilor Gary Brown, however, who spoke for the business community...
...value every man and woman. I want to help people out,” the Cape Cod Times quoted councilor Brown as saying. “But at some point, there are priorities. Our children are our priority. We have a business community and a tourist industry, and both are being hurt by these camps...
...children whom councilor Brown invoked were, of course, a school of red herrings. Barnstable’s priority is not its natives; the business community’s concerns lie elsewhere. Even the most energetic public relations effort by the aforementioned booster, the doyen of the Hyannis Main Street Business Improvement District and Hyannis’ leading Babbitt, cannot reconcile the Kennedy Compound with the homeless camp, the lobster-wielding old salt with the shuffling transient and the undulating sand dunes with the drifts of tiny liquor bottles that sanitation workers shoveled into dump trucks in mid-July. The homeless...
...Councilor Michael Roache, who chairs Boston’s university relations committee, called Harvard a “champion of civil rights, a champion of people of color...