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In a meeting last Monday, the City Council proposed to raise annual salaries for council members by nearly $10,000 to $52,500. They also proposed to raise the salaries of school committee members by almost $5,000 to $25,900not minor pay hikes. However, the agenda made no formal...
The wording of the agenda item spoke only of a "recommended amendment to the Cambridge Municipal Code" and did not make any formal mention of the proposed increase.
The council approved the additional funds for the study over Reeve's solitary objection, with the other councillors saying the site study could also evaluate the feasibility of other municipal uses of city property.
According to the scholar Nathan C. Shiverick ’52, the leisure bred by wealth creates a demand for an outlet to pass the time and expend energy and aggression. The conclusion of the Civil War ushered in great fortunes for some Bostonians. But Shiverick argues that more lies...
At their worst, lynchings were episodes of sunlit municipal sadism. Newspapers announced the time and place in advance. Excursion trains were organized to move crowds to the scene. It was the Vicksburg Evening News that reported how Luther Holbert and his wife were burned to death by a crowd in...