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Last month, McMillan threatened to close the bar and a "For Rent" sign was posted. At the time, she said the Boathouse would definitely close by the end of October...
Tomorrow, Cambridge voters will have a chance to help define the city's future. In some ways, the issues at hand are old ones--what to do about the current policy of rent control and how best to balance the development of businesses against the needs of residential neighborhoods. But the city, approaching the limit of the property taxes it can collect under state law, is also about to face new economic challenges. The city council will have to consider carefully its spending priorities, and must seek to maximize the efficiency of existing programs...
...city's growing minority communities. As ex officio chair of the school committee, Reeves has shown a true dedication to the city's educational system, and has proposed major reforms to bring its benefits to less wealthy schoolchildren. While Reeves has his drawbacks (he lives in a rent-controlled housing unit, despite his salaries as a lawyer and mayor; he fails to foster consensus among the councillors) we think that overall he is a valuable influence on the council...
...displeasure) on Donahue's show two weeks ago, he was being the pedal-to-the- metal performance artist one expects. And his unedited riffing can often be, as charged, disgusting: his jokes 11 years ago about his wife's miscarriage were inexcusable, his now defunct TV show's low-rent T&A spectacle a depressing glimpse into a New Jersey heart of darkness...
Sometime a few years ago, movie stars and urbane, goat-cheese-and-endive types discovered bowling alleys, pool halls, tattoos, Harley Davidsons, diners and restaurants that looked like diners but served goat cheese and endive. All of a sudden the pastimes, artifacts and style of low-rent America, in all their glorious white-trashiness, had become chic. The fashion continues to flourish...