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...Council is required by Massachusetts law to pass the measure along to the Cambridge Planning Board—one of several steps that stand in the way of the Council’s final vote on the proposed amendment...
...heated debate spilled over onto the UC general e-mail list just hours after Undergraduate Council President Andrea R. Flores ’10 cast the tie-breaking vote in favor of a contentious legislation to allocate $200 towards publicity for a for-profit student business, “Get Out of Cambridge...
...unanimous vote in favor of the legislation to endorse and publicize the enterprise is in keeping with a similar arrangement that the council had with CrimsonReading.org, a site devoted to helping undergraduates find cheaper, used textbooks. Although, when Crimson Reading was created in 2006 it was a non-profit site and the site’s profits were donated to a charity in Zambia...
After Minnesota's canvassing board certified Franken the winner of the state's protracted race by 225 votes in early January, Coleman filed an election contest on grounds that flaws in the state's election system were so widespread that they cost him the Senate seat. In the weeks that followed, Coleman's legal counsel has subpoenaed dozens of Minnesota voters and election officials to testify before a three-judge panel about irregularities in the state's vote-tallying process...
Franken's counsel thought otherwise. On Friday, the panel heard arguments about a request from Franken to dismiss the case altogether because, they argued, Coleman failed to prove that there were enough improperly rejected ballots to close Franken's 225-vote margin. The court is expected to rule on that motion soon. In the meantime, Franken's team has been trying to prove that flaws in the state's election system were the exception, not the rule. He is also attempting to get about 800 absentee ballots tossed into the final tally, most of which are from counties...