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A “home-rule” petition, which would reinstate Cambridge’s ability to provide medical benefits to domestic partners has advanced to the State Senate.
The petition was filed by Cambridge Rep. Alice K. Wolf in the wake of a 2000 ruling by the Supreme Judicial Court that struck down a 1992 city ordinance that allowed domestic partners a variety of benefits including visitation rights, access to confidential records and health coverage.
Last week, Wolf’s petition received a favorable report from the Joint Committee on Public Service, and enjoys the support of fifty members of the senate.
“History has proven that people can get 20 signatures on a petition, and the next thing you know you have a moratorium or a down-zoning that will stop you cold in your tracks,” says Travis McCready, Harvard’s director of community...
Harvard has currently offered sliding scale payments of $2.7 million for 20 years—an offer that Watertown has rejected as too low, leading them to file a home rule petition with the Mass. state legislature calling for full tax payments.