Word: rent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rent Control: To the People...
...some Kirkland House students last week received missives of a different kind from their superintendent, Kevin Higgins. To selected students (apparently those who vote in Massachusetts), Higgins sent a political message: vote against rent control in the November referendum...
...message took the form of a xeroxed Boston Herald article accompanied by this scrawled entreaty: "Rent Control in my opinion is illegal. This is one of the reasons the City of Cambridge is called 'The Republic of Cambridge...
Though we suspect Higgins meant the 'People's Republic of Cambridge' (calling something a republic is not usually an insult, after all), we agree wholeheartedly with his sentiment. It is our hope that the ill-conceived scheme called rent control meets a decisive end in November...
...really don't care how Kevin Higgins feels about rent control or any other political issue. The staff sees the Kirkland superintendent's stuffing of mailboxes as a good excuse to seem. Phasize its position on rent control; we think The Crimson missed the point...