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Murray lived in Boston for 15 years and attended MIT as an undergraduate and Tufts as a graduate student...
With Cambridge property taxes up sharply this year, city councillors unanimously called on Harvard and MIT to increase their voluntary annual payments to the city yesterday, a move that plays on local resentment toward tax-free universities...
...It’s important we recognize the simple fact that for over a decade, Harvard and MIT have not adjusted their annual tax payment,” said Councillor Anthony D. Galluccio, co-sponsor of the resolution...
Cambridge doesn’t necessarily owe automatic representation to its student population. But in all fairness, the city could not enjoy the relative prosperity it has without the presence of Harvard, MIT, and Lesley University, which collectively account for 18,000 jobs in Cambridge, attract developing businesses and tourism to the area, and foster the city’s reputation as an intellectual and technology hub. The issues that are important to Harvard students, including safety, are not out of step with the concerns of other Cambridge residents. More important, satisfied student constituents in the short-term would translate...
Harvard and MIT “have very well-healed real estate arms, and they’re operating as corporations with enormous endowments,” Gallucio said in an interview last night. He said the measures would send “a strong message that our taxpayers are getting hit across the city,” and that “it’s just not acceptable” for Harvard and MIT to shirk their tax burden...