Word: reeveses
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Mayor of Cambridge Kenneth E. Reeves ’72 has been an active figure in local politics since his senior year of college, when he participated in a University Hall sit-in against Harvard’s Angolan investments. As a Cambridge city councillor since 1989, and with his...
Reeves has been in financial hot water before, when the FBI investigated allegations of financial wrongdoing during his previous mayoral term. But given the political theater of this year’s scandals—farcical enough to earn the title “Ken’s crazy Chronicle...
The controversy surrounding Reeves began on December 18, when City Manager Robert W. Healy asked the council for an additional $19,750—on top of a previously allocated $20,500 budget—to subsidize the mayor’s travels to conferences around the country.
However, the Cambridge Chronicle highlighted the measure later in the week with a story that accused the mayor of “blowing” through his travel budget and asking for even more money. After the paper filed a Freedom of Information Act request for details of Reeves?...
“Cambridge seems to have an embarrassment of riches,” Reeves said. “But on the other hand it has all the problems of urban America.”