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...fact, the council has shown itself to be remarkably inept in recent years in reacting to the rising rents and housing shortages that have pushed long-time residents out of the city. The council has yet to put together a comprehensive forward-looking plan to deal with the issues of gentrification and the loss of rent control. If the City Council wants to wrest control away from a demonstrably efficient and fair city manager it must prove itself to be worthy of the responsibility...
...Indeed, a clumsy and hackneyed remake like The Bachelor makes one yearn for the elegant tightness of the silent era. Go out and rent Seven Chances (and The General, while you're at it) and watch a couple of sitcom reruns, and you'll have outdone any sort of entertainment that The Bachelor has to offer...
...issues are not as contentious now," Bill Zampirelli, vice chair of the Chamber of Commerce, said of the current state of city politics. According to Zampirelli, the prosperous economy has caused Cambridge residents to favor conservative fiscal policy. Rent control, he said, is a notion of the past...
Some explained that the council's decision to end rent control in 1996 has led to a shift in Cambridge demographics. Residents on the whole are wealthier and as a result less inclined towards liberal ideology now than they were during the height of Triantafillou's political success...
...Triantafillou who brought the question of rent control to the council's agenda this year. Support for rent control appears to be on the decline, however...