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...local writer Anne Bernays says, “He is an institution...
...sits on the board of both the Harvard Square Business Association and Beacon Crafts, a local but world-renowned publisher...
...founded Cambridge Local First, an organization intended to foster support for local Square businesses, which has now has over 250 members...
...Beyond his journalistic facility, Cooke seemed to have a diviner's rod that led him toward powerful men and big stories. In 1931, on vacation in Munich, he stumbled onto a street speech by a local spellbinder: Adolf Hitler, two years before the Third Reich came to power. In 1936 Cooke wandered into an alley during Harvard's tricentennial celebration and saw two Secret Service men lean into a limo and lift out the polio-stricken "Franklin Roosevelt, inert as a sack of potatoes." In 1968 he was at the Ambassador Hotel when Robert Kennedy was shot, and filed...
Cushy government benefits are beginning to clash with the fearsome reality of explosive state and local deficits. "Towns are starting to fight back," says Edholm. "They're drowning, and they realize they have to do something about it." Many municipalities and a majority of states now face serious budget shortfalls, and declining tax revenues are likely to result from the onset of a recession. That may force some tough choices. "Falling tax receipts resulting from a steep recession could change the budgetary requirements of state and local governments," says Bos. "Whether that will have an impact on services or benefits...