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...Protests, Again After just a few months of relative calm following an extended period of political turmoil, as many as 100,000 protested on April 8 to demand that Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva step down. Supporters of exiled former PM Thaksin Shinawatra rallied outside the home of the privy councilor to Thailand's revered monarch. Thaksin blames the adviser for organizing the 2006 coup that ousted...
...task force meeting last week, Boston city councilor Mark Ciommo implored Harvard to stop buying properties in light of its planned slowdown...
...other respiratory problems, he said. “It is a difficult issue,” Seidel said, explaining that the Council would have limited influence in the matter. “Although the project has serious implications for Cambridge, it is fundamentally a Belmont decision.” Councilor Craig A. Kelley proposed two amendments to the resolution in an effort to secure some Cambridge input in the matter. He requested a joint meeting of the Cambridge and Belmont Conservation Committees—which will assess the project from an environmental perspective—and called for the Belmont...
America saw its first Asian American mayor in San Jose, California in 1971, just a year after Kennedy School alum Sam Yoon was born in Seoul, South Korea. In November 2005, Yoon was elected a city councilor at-large—making him the first Asian American elected to office in Boston, in addition to the only Asian American to ever run for public office in the city. Now, Yoon has announced his intention to run for mayor of Boston against incumbent Thomas M. Menino, the longest-serving mayor in the city’s history...
...local aid cuts made by then-governor Mitt Romney. Local officials said the financial strains of the cuts would be felt immediately. “This a difficult economic season and it’s going to get worse before it gets better,” said Cambridge city councilor Sam Seidel. —Staff writer Liyun Jin can be reached at ljin@fas.harvard.edu...