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Part of the delay in electing a mayor can simply be attributed to the schedule. After voting Jan. 3 and Jan. 10, the council has had only one regular meeting in the past three weeks, on Jan. 24. At that meeting, the council engaged in a heated debate before passing...
And so the information gathering will go both ways. Already the San Francisco-based political-consulting firm Aristotle matches voting patterns with the personal information many of us give away online when signing up for services like free e-mail. The result is an ability to target voters from specific...
"The economy in Cambridge is changing, the population is changing," Born said, adding that the Larkin petition was the first step for the council to create a new vision for the city that valued quality of life in addition to commercial developement.
Decker, however, urged the council not to delay any further, as the petition needed to be passed before any more development occurs.
Finally, Galluccio's amendment was amended itself to encourage development of housing of 20 or more units on the site, and the petition finally passed at about 12:30 a.m. Councillors David P. Maher and Michael A. Sullivan voted against it, but the motion squeaked through with the necessary seven...