Word: mayor
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Implemented in the 1970s, rent control helped provide low-cost housing to residents in Cambridge, Boston and Brookline. Detractors, including many area landlords, claimed the program was rife with abuse, even citing then-Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves '72 as an example of a rent-control tenant who did not need any protection...
...council is currently evenly split between two factions. Henrietta E. Davis, Vice Mayor Kathleen L. Born, Francis H. Duehay '55, and Katherine Triantafillou are affiliated with the CCA. The Independents include Toomey, Galluccio, Michael A. Sullivan and Mayor Sheila Doyle Russell...
...wonder, then, that there is such anger towards those who try to get labor on the cheap. This is the basis of Manhattan Borough President Ruth Messinger's recent attack on New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani's workfare program. Messinger called Giuliani's program "chattel ownership and indentured servitude." Her attack turns on this second component of labor's value; she laments in the Forward that not enough of the participants received real jobs...
...quarters without skipping an edition and began publishing page-long lists of personal messages phoned in by townsfolk--messages such as "To Mary O'Leary from Vicky Misialek: If you need a place to stay, please call." Same thing on radio. A woman named Marci heard that elfin mayor Pat Owens, elected in a landslide last year after assisting four mayors over 32 years, had fled her house with only two sets of clothes. So Marci called KNOX-AM to offer more...
...Wednesday the mayor made her daily appearance on KCNN-FM's "relief radio," where owner Dave Norman wears a shirt that says, no water, no food, no power, no problem. Owens often recognizes the voices of callers before they identify themselves. "I looked toward your house the other day and remembered the good old days," she told someone named Vicky, "and I actually got tears in my eyes...