Word: pr
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With the exception of New York City's community school board elections, Cambridge is the only municipal government in the U.S. to use proportional representation--typically known as PR, according to the New York-based Institute of Public Administration...
...theory, PR is designed to make sure the fringe gets a voice in situations where traditional voting methods split two parties along a few mainstream issues. In Cambridge, candidates only need to receive support from one-ninth of the electorate, rather than a majority...
MOST of all, there's Valvano, professor of "the Art of the Big Con 101." A liar, a cheat, a turncoat, a PR mastermind--this is not the funny loudmouth we saw on CBS looking for someone to hug after winning the NCAA championship...
This November's election, however, is destined to be different. For the first time in more than 25 years, three city councillors will not seek re-election, paving the way for one of the most dramatic council races in the nearly 50-year history of PR...
...three vacancies leave the race wide open. The good-government Cambridge Civic Association (CCA)--which has commanded a fourmember minority on the council since the early 1970s--and other liberal groups could make up a progressive majority on the council come next November. But given the edge PR seems to give incumbents, the CCA is facing an uphill battle...