Word: rossi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...point, Mr. Day may be right but is. I feel, selling out his fellow students and young people. Rossi and Graham may well be the strongest of the "Radical Five" as Mr. Day believes. The implication that they are strong because each of them has a solid base in a geographical area of Cambridge which the other three lack is misleading. "Contact with the neighborhoods" must include contact with Mr. Day's own community of students and young people. One may doubt that students and the young will vote in the Nov. 2 elections--but why doubt that they...
Five candidates--Phil Shaw, Tom Rossi, Henry Smilowitz, Saundra Graham, and Wendell Smith--have formed a loose coalition and outlined a program for remodeling the city...
...Rossi's main complaint about the present Cambridge city government is that it is too closed, that instead of informing people about its workings, it has chosen to be silent, to hide itself from the people--whether on purpose or by mistake is in-consequential. "For instance, the only information the city gives out about rent control is a copy of the Massachusetts law and a description of fair net operating income," he points out. "There is no information given about appeal rights, and unless you have a specific question rent control will not be explained to you. Most people...
...Rossi would seek to require every department to publish just what their job is and what they do or don't do. If no city departments covered certain problems that frequently come up, Rossi would have the government publish and distribute lists of groups that would provide those services--such as Legal...
...issue of a day care center is an essential one that cuts right to the heart of many of Cambridge's problems," Rossi said. "The first thing is, it's all very well to sit around and talk about a day care center, but the sort of commitment and energy to actually run one is enormous, and the way that people have been conditioned not to work with each other may prevent it from ever happening. You can't just decide to have a day care center and then have one. Secondly, unless the day care center is totally community...