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The petition would allow the city to spend more money on education, public safety, and other municipal services by charging property taxes above the maximum of 2 1/2 per cent currently allowed by law, Cambridge officials said yesterday.
Sponsored by councilor David Sullivan, the motion cites the referendum vote from last month's municipal election. Cambridge residents voted 17,480 to 5973 to "call upon our representatives in Congress to oppose sending U.S. troops military advisors, arms or military aid of any kind whatsoever" to El Salvador.
In Chicago politics, patronage is not exactly unknown. Even nepotism is a lively tradition: Mayor Jane Byrne's husband and daughter both work for her. But no one takes kinship more seriously than Chicago City Alderman Fred Roti. He admitted last week that 16 members of his family are...
For a few months every two years, everyone in the city--especially reporters--turn their attention to politics. The municipal elections are over and done with now, though, and there's time to catch up with what else has been going on in Cambridge. What follows are short updates on...
Dallas, in contrast, has always been justly proud of its municipal competence. Politics in both cities are dominated by local business oligarchies, but the business men who run Dallas do it better. That former trading post's relatively orderly development could give it the long-term economic edge over...