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According to local political pundit Robert Winters, Cambridge is the only city in the entire country that still uses the so-called “proportional representation” (PR) voting system, which is specifically designed to allow smaller political parties and interest groups to gain a voice in local government...
These are just a few of the 10 outsiders who have announced that they hope to gain a seat in Cambridge’s hall of power, the Cambridge City Council...
...system is one of the “purest” forms of democracy, he adds. The PR system has historically attracted dark horse candidates and long shots—from hard-core Libertarians to members of the Green Party—who want to gain a toehold on the mainstream, as well as long-time denizens of the neighborhood-based politics in the People’s Republic of Cambridge...
...billion annually. (That doesn't include the estimated $1 billion the industry will have to spend to upgrade its networks to accommodate the change, but consumers will be picking up that tab; some providers are already collecting a small surcharge.) Even carriers that end up with a net gain in subscribers will lose money in handset subsidies, sales commissions and activation costs, Entner says...
...smart and contemporary" and "unapologetically male" (as in, Is that a spike in your ratings, or are you just happy to see me?). But the choice led to some bad p.r. last week when director Spike Lee sued TNN, claiming it was associating itself with his name for "commercial gain." Somewhere, watching Nick at Nite in his den, Nick Nolte is kicking himself...