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Police departments’ inability to intervene unless summoned is distinctly at odds with the belief that “early intervention is the best prevention,” common in recent homeless initiatives, says Cambridge City Councillor David P. Maher. Maher is familiar with many local homelessness concerns because of his day job at the Cambridge Family and Children’s Service...
...Maher said he hopes the number of cities which have now voted in local smoking bans—including Boston and, shortly after Cambridge’s ban was passed, Somerville—will put pressure on the state legislature to pass a state-wide ban currently under consideration...
...Maher said that response to the ban has been overwhelmingly positive, and even some staunch opponents have called him to say they understood where the push for a ban came from...
...When I explained that I was the past president of the American Cancer Society of the city of Cambridge, I think people clearly understood the role that I was going to take with this,” Maher said. “Sure there are going to be some people that are unhappy. At the end of the day, I think people respect the way the council came down on the issue...
...Maher is chair of the council’s University Relations Committee, which Sullivan appointed in January 2002 to forge better ties between the city and its universities...