Sometimes I think some of our city councillors are just robots created as part of an MIT project – programmed to solve some maximum packing problem set with no sense of aesthetics, liveability, or community. Meanwhile, the activists promise benefits like cheaper rents and lower costs that will...
Who would replace each of the elected city councillors and School Committee members should a vacancy occur?Replacements are determined from the ballots used to elect each councillor or School Committee member. I ran the tabulation software with the 2021 ballot data and here’s what I found: ...
Perhaps Councillors Sobrinho-Wheeler, Siddiqui, Nolan, and Wilson didn’t get the memo. Or maybe this is being introduced strategically right now as the City Manager’s contract extension is being negotiated. Or maybe it’s just another municipal election year bauble to be dangled in front of...
reorganization of some City departments - Executive and CDD; sizable 34.3% increase in Mayor’s Office budget; Charter Review status and Gov’t Operations Committee; Planning Board appointments and voracious appetite of some city councillors for behind-the-scenes control or public inquisition; Ronayne...
Secondly, it would be helpful if Councillors could push the message out to residents that there are programs available to residents. Councillor Devereux thanked all those present for their attendance. The hearing adjourned at 4:51pm. For the Committee, Councillor Jan Devereux, Chair...
There's been barely a hint of BS from either of them, they have very comparable experience as city councillors and as Chairs of their respective city councils, and they both exhibit a wealth of detail in the mechanics of what works and doesn't work in their respective parts of the ...
better Cambridge" - not me. Several weeks ago some councillors expressed a desire to build on a newly-acquired softball field. Soon they'll be taking up a proposal to more than double the allowable density across much of the city. It's like they put amphetamines in the Cambridge Kool-Aid...