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On Monday night, the Cambridge City Council and Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves ’72 gave a long-awaited nudge to the Cambridge Licensing Commission (CLC) in favor of loosening its Puritanical rules. For the past two decades, the CLC and its ally-in-arms, the Harvard Square Defense...
In a roundtable meeting about Cambridge’s liquor license policy yesterday, the city council encouraged the city’s license commission to make it easier for restaurants to serve alcohol. Councillors raised concerns that the current policy dissuades innovative young restaurateurs from opening in Cambridge and discourages...
Reeves took that lesson to heart. Even while her singing career flourished, she maintained a steady presence in Detroit, making her home in a downtown high-rise apartment with her son Eric, attending the True Rock Baptist Church every Sunday she was in the city and becoming a visible town...
But although running for office may tap some of the same know-how as putting on a show, legislating has required Reeves to develop new abilities. During most council meetings, as her eight colleagues debate taxes and other municipal business, Reeves quietly takes notes. Pointing to the sea of paper...
She's also learning that the adulation she is accustomed to receiving as an entertainer can now sometimes be mixed with a few boos. In June she suffered a political embarrassment when a local newspaper revealed that several properties she owns around Detroit had code violations. Reeves says she has...