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...sure, the low voter turnout is due to the fairly uneventful race for mayor. Flynn's closest competition, City Councilor Joseph Tierney, proved to be a weak challenger, scraping up only 27 percent of the vote. The two other candidates in the preliminary election barely made a dent in the electoral column...
...daily life. There are threats and occasionally even executions. It sounds like Al Capone's Chicago or Mafia-dominated Sicily in the days of gangland wars. But instead, all those evils are flourishing in today's Northern Ireland in neighborhoods controlled by extremists. Says Brian Feeney, a Belfast city councilor: "This is real godfather stuff. Everybody pays. If you don't, they threaten to harm your family or workers...
...poor, poor people are upset and mad and teed off about the high rate of taxes and the high rate of sewer fees," declared Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci last night--prompting a colleague to approach the press table and whisper, "Is there an election this year...
...Councilor Saundra Graham provided a counterpart to Vellucci's accomplished ravings last Monday, when the ostensible topic of discussion was a firehouse in Kendall Square that the city recently sold to MIT, against the wishes of some Councilors who had wanted to sell it to a taxable business...
...island were used as a sludge treatmentsite, it would have to be capped to preventfurther leakage of toxic substances, said QuincyCity Councilor Michael Cheney...