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...said has still not provided details about the specific components of its Allston plan. In particular, residents complained about what task force chair Ray Mellone called “nebulous” plans for the Holton Street Corridor and a proposed housing complex for Harvard affiliates in the South District. Some residents also questioned how Harvard’s master planning would fit in with the community-wide planning efforts lead by the city. “This seemed to me like it was a quick study of how to prepare for changes in that area without really knowing whats...
...Tavaras was charged with shoplifting by concealment in Cambridge, but the case was dropped, according to the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office...
...those new voters moving into Prince William have helped make the once reliably Republican district a swing county and the linchpin for Democratic statewide victories. The county voted 52% for President Bush in 2000 and 53% in 2004. But in 2005, Prince William residents helped elect Tim Kaine, a Democrat, governor with 50% of the ballots and the next year voted in nearly identical numbers to put Democrat Jim Webb in the Senate. "If Democrats split the vote in Prince William and win big in the northern counties, they win the state," says Mike May, a Republican Prince William County...
...state that has seen its voter rolls swell by 436,000 since the beginning of the year. The Obama campaign has made a massive push to register blacks, who make up 20% of the population, as well as Latinos and students at the four colleges in the district. Obama will need these voters to eke out a win in Prince William. And if he does that, the state's 13 electoral votes will probably move into the Democrats' column...
...Congressional race in the Evergreen State’s 8th district, Republican incumbent David G. Reichert’s campaign has challenged an assertion made by Darcy G. Burner ’96 that she received an economics degree from Harvard...