Word: local
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Venerable National Park Service Director William Mott, 78, and his assistant Loran Fraser thought they had a grand idea. "A National Celebration of the Outdoors," modeled on the recommendations of a presidential commission, was to be a week of activities focusing attention on conservation in local communities throughout the country. But last April Mott's boss, Interior Secretary Donald Hodel, chewed out the pair and demanded they abandon their efforts. Soon after, Mott and Fraser received a memorandum from Interior's legal office telling them they were under investigation and should retain outside legal counsel. "Hodel humiliated Mott," says...
Members of Cambridge's local painters union for the last week have been picketing several Harvard buildings because contractors hired by the University are using non-union laborers and paying them low wages, according to a union official...
About 20 members of Painters District Council 35, Local 577, began to picket a week ago at certain Harvard-owned locations, including the entrance to Lowell House, the sidewalk in front of Harvard Hillel and the Dana Palmer House where the non-union painters are working...
...race for the 29th district of Middlesex Country, Vellucci has garnered endorsements from several liberal political groups, including Americans for Democratic Action (ADA), the Massachusetts Choice Political Action Committee (MCPAC), the Commonwealth Electoral Coalition, the Local 26 Restaurant Workers and the Massachusetts Teachers Association, said Campaign Manager Clifford Truesdell...
Truesdell said that in addition to the groups which have pledged to support him, Vellucci has also won the endorsement of many state and local politicians, including his father, Somerville Mayor Brune, State Sen. Salvatore R. Albano, State Sen. Michael J. Barrett, State Sen. Michael LoPresti, Jr. '70 and Cambridge City Councillor Saundra Graham...