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Wednesday’s meeting was the climax of a month of tension between Harvard and Allston residents. On top of discussions about proposals for an art museum, a science building, and the overall master plan, Boston City Councilor-at-Large Felix Arroyo introduced an ordinance last month that would institute a moratorium on construction by universities in Boston. In order to continue expanding, Harvard would have to continually shell out payments equivalent to the property taxes Harvard would pay were it not a nonprofit as well as receive City Council approval. Arroyo’s bill—effectively...
...When he was re-elected to a third term in 2005, Chavez made a promise to end euthanasia at the city's animal shelters. He had already been meeting daily with City Councilor Sally Mayer and regularly with breeders and groomers across the city to come up with an animal ordinance that would improve the way the city treats its dogs and cats and increase the number of adoptions. At the time, the city was euthanizing more than 1,000 pets a month...
Henrietta Davis, a city councilor involved in the project, said that connecting Harvard Square would be a major step in the city-wide Cambridge Public Internet project...
...local level, City Councilor Michael A. Sullivan won the nomination for Middlesex County Clerk of Courts—a position has been held for the last 48 years by his uncle, Edward J. Sullivan—with three-quarters of the vote...
...body. As interim University President Derek C. Bok said yesterday, early admissions “advantage[s] the advantaged” because the pool of early applicants is disproportionately affluent and white. Most strong minority and low-income applicants apply in January. Their secondary schools, where the advisee-to-councilor ratio is astronomical, where most students don’t have the money to visit colleges or hire private councilors, and where bureaucracy likely impedes the processing of applications, are less likely to provide students the information and infrastructure needed to apply early. Besides mitigating some of the advantages...