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Saundra Graham is patient when City Council meetings drag on into the small hours of the morning--as a four-term incumbent and state representative, not to mention a leader of the state's Black Political Caucus--Graham is used to long meetings...
...four-term councilor, Wylie works as an attorney in Cambridge...
Under Question 3 the city would encourage the use of safe, renewable energy sources, as well as requesting state and federal governments not to license new nuclear power plants. Because nuclear power is not the best long-term resolution to the energy crisis, we support strong measures to develop alternatives...
There are eight independent candidates, including three incumbents, in the running. Veterans Joseph E. Maynard and Donald A. Fantini joined with Mayor Thomas Danehy last term to form the conservative bloc, voting against the CCA members on issues like school reorganization. Maynard watches out for vocational education, and Fantini protects bilingual programs while forcing the council to spend carefully. The third incumbent, David J. Holway, has provided the swing vote between independent and convention blocs, and calls himself the "boat person" of Cambridge politics...
Boston voters will pick a mayor tomorrow and the names on the ballot will look very familiar. Incumbent Kevin H. White is seeking a fourth term and State Senator Joseph F. Timilty is trying for the third time to unseat him. Timilty nearly beat White in the 1975 election following the height of the Boston busing crisis, Watergate, and a series of attacks on the ethics of the White administration. The outcome of tomorrow's contest hinges on Timilty as the alternative candidate and on the changing nature of the city's population...