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Harvard’s plans in Allston are also inspired by bold thinking by government leaders. The commitment of Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino to the city’s neighborhoods and to greening the city and cutting greenhouses gases have informed Harvard’s master plan as much as his strong support of universities as partners in the economic future of Boston. And Harvard’s first priority in Allston is an interdisciplinary research center that will house the newly formed Department of Developmental and Regenerative Biology, the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, and other cutting-edge research...
...However, the Cambridge Chronicle highlighted the measure later in the week with a story that accused the mayor of “blowing” through his travel budget and asking for even more money. After the paper filed a Freedom of Information Act request for details of Reeves’ travel costs, Reeves appointed John Clifford, an ex-Marine, union organizer, and political operative for the mayor, as his spokesman—a highly unconventional move given the council’s general openness to the public...
...Following his appointment, Clifford orchestrated several efforts to defend the mayor’s reputation. He published an editorial in the Chronicle on January 3, defending Reeves’ actions and saying, “we should be proud of the mayor.” In the following weeks, Reeves’ office sent the Chronicle a spreadsheet of his credit card expenses from the latter half of 2006, which showed that Reeves charged the city with an average of $41.44 for each of his meals...
...Mayor Reeves and John Clifford seem to think that this whole story came from Robert Winters’ Web site,” he says. “It wasn’t that we got some kind of tip from Robert Winters...
CORRECTION: The June 7 story "Mayor in Media Tiff" incorrectly stated that the Cambridge Chronicle did not print a correction after it learned that it had overstated the amount of travel expenses incurred by Cambridge Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves '72. In fact, the newspaper published a clarification on Jan. 11 stating that Reeves had only spent $11,188 on travel—not the more than $40,000 figure the paper initially reported...