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Although some people may feel a national center of Italian culture would be more appropiately located in New York or Philadelphia, City Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci has no doubts that it belongs in Cambridge and that it will benefit the entire community, not just Italian-Americans. Vellucci says Italian's contributions to the community have ranged from Civil War volunteer service to the establishment of vital small businesses, querying, "how can you even ask where Cambridge would be without Italians? That's as ridiculous as asking where it would be without Harvard...
...laser technicians and econometricians moving in. But in a city where voters go to the polls only once every two years, and where the switch of one seat on the City Council would mean control of City Hall, the changes in power could literally occur overnight. They have before--Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci, the senior member of the City Council, says at least twice in the city's history the balance of power changed in a single election. "Until 1892, the Harvard Yankees, the people with the high fences around their yards, controlled the city of Cambridge. But then came...
...conversion lures professionsals to homes that once belonged to the ethnic working-class and the elderly, the chance of a substantial change in voting patterns is high. "There is an emerging constituency. It's almost a John Anderson constituency--liberal on social issues, but quite conservative on economic questions," Councilor David Sullivan, who collected the second highest number of votes during the last City Council election, says. Without regulation slowing condo growth, that class could be huge by the end of the decade; with the current controls it will still be sizeable and powerful...
When Mary Ellen Preusser, former Cambridge city councilor, initiated a petition last year calling for legislation restricting university expansion, town-gown relations in the city took a new turn...
...numerous attacks from city developers. The study shows they will likely be replaced by higher income owners, for the most part young professionals (attracted by the city's budding high technology industries). They will be single, or, if married, have few children. "That is the definition of gentrification," Councilor David Sullivan--who won his seat with heavy tenant backing--says...