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...Cambridge City Council established rent control in 1970 over the strenuous objections of the real estate industry and large landlords. Nothing in the original policy prevented some 5000 tenants from buying their apartments, however. As the supply of affordable housing dwindled, the Cambridge City Council enacted the Removal Permit Ordinance in 1979, which greatly restricted the ability of new tenants to purchase their apartments...
...growth forests. The lumber industry objects that a ban would devastate the timber-based economies of the region. Last week George Bush signed into law a compromise hammered out by a congressional conference committee. It prohibits sales of timber from areas where the spotted owl dwells, but permits 7.7 billion board feet of wood to be harvested on nearby tracts where cutting has been stalled by environmentalists' lawsuits. Environmentalists can sue to prevent future logging of old-growth timber, but only if they file within 15 days of the issuance of a federal permit. Said Oregon Congressman Les AuCoin...
Abortion-rights activists may be winning over politicians and the public, but they still lack the muscle to override their most powerful opponent. Two weeks ago, George Bush vetoed a bill to permit Medicaid to pay for the abortions of the victims of rape or incest. Last week, by a count of 231 to 191, the House of Representatives fell 51 votes short of the two-thirds majority necessary to overturn him. Bush then vetoed the District of Columbia's $3.4 billion annual budget because it includes Medicaid funds for abortion...
...really be just ten months since Hungary took its first tentative step toward democracy by passing a law to permit the formation of independent political parties? Last week Hungary's largest opposition party named a candidate for November's presidential election -- and he stands a good chance of winning...
CCLN charges that the Binney Street garage counts as commercial parking, and that Teso should not have issued its permit because Cambridge already had too much commercial parking. They also say Teso had no authority to issue the permit in any case because he disobeyed a requirement to send annual parking reports to state and federal regulators...