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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...school committee's historic incompetence has filtered down to the system's administration, mainly through patronage and sheer stupidity. State Rep. Mel King. a school reform activist, claims Boston lacks a functioning educational system "for the same reasons it doesn't have any services. The system is used for a vehicle for employment, not services." Patronage has long been a publicity accepted part of Boston's politics, permeating city hall and the courtsystem, but its widespread presence has made the system close to being inoperative. The school committee returned Kerrigan's brother-in-law to his custodial job after...

Author: By Mike Kendall, | Title: An Abandoned Ship | 9/24/1977 | See Source »

Esther Peterson, Carter's effervescent consumer affairs adviser, said yesterday the bill's supporters may still be as many as 20 votes short in the House, according to an estimate made by longtime consumer advocate Rep. Benjamin Rosenthal (D.N.Y...

Author: By Michael A. Calabrese, | Title: Consumers Rain Nickels on Congress | 9/22/1977 | See Source »

...effect on me, it would tend to make me vote against the bill. For Common Cause to be sending out money on legislation isn't very funny," Rep. Samuel Stratton (D- N.Y.), who claims to be undecided about the proposed agency, said...

Author: By Michael A. Calabrese, | Title: Consumers Rain Nickels on Congress | 9/22/1977 | See Source »

...required to participate in a short work-shop or cooperative experience with a government agency. The school's active faculty includes some of the luminaries of the Cambridge-Washington shuttle: Allison, John T. Dunlop, Lamont University Professor, and Richard E. Neustadt, professor of Government. Adjunct lecturers, including Massachusetts State Rep. Barney Frank and former CIA employee Robert T. Kiley, chairman of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, are brought in for substantive teaching roles. The Kennedy School's Institute of Politics offers several programs and study groups on the more political side of government...

Author: By Michael Kendall, | Title: Harvard Goes From Bundy To Allison | 9/16/1977 | See Source »

...State Rep. Thomas H.D. Mahoney, one of Cambridge's representatives in the Massachusetts House, said yesterday the decision to force the city to buy the new vehicle came as no surprise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: City Will Buy Ambulance, But Rescue Squad May Still Use Its Diesel Van | 9/12/1977 | See Source »

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