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According to the vigil's organizers, Harvard was the largest rent-control landlord in Cambridge until rent-control was eliminated in last year's state elections. Today it is the second biggest real-estate investor in Cambridge...
...they need 24-hour casinos. In Missouri, a riverboat-gambling proposal was sunk, as was an effort to win floating casinos for Indiana. And in the year's most colorful campaign, "gonzo" journalist Hunter Thompson persuaded voters in Aspen, Colorado, to unite against "the greed heads" and the "absentee-landlord scum" seeking to expand the town's airport to accommodate big jets...
...hoping Harvard will act like a model landlord rather than a for-profit business," Davis says...
Although such emphases are both politically effective and statistically accurate (more than 90 percent of Massachusetts legal services cases last year dealt with direct client representation in matters such as child custody and landlord-tenant disputes), they neglect direct confrontation with Republicans on the issues at hard. Poverty advocates should be proud of their role in calling the state to account when it fails in its commitments to the disadvantaged. As Justice Scalia's recent article "The Rule of Law as a Law of Rules" demonstrated, most of the reactionaries currently on the Supreme Court have given up on judicial...
...only employee left following layoffs last month. Heather handles everything from typing and filing to the actual machine work. Her rent and day-care costs alone total $1,000. Last month, she reports with great pain and embarrassment, she had to borrow $200 to pay her landlord. "It just about killed me to do it,'' recalls Beck. "I don't even know how I'm going to repay...