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...including Terrence F. Smith, the director of government affairs for the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce, said that thanks to the taxes paid by the biotechnology firms, Cambridge is able to provide extensive programs for its low-income residents while maintaining relatively low property taxes. In September, biotech lab developer Alexandria Real Estate, Inc. applied for a zoning change that would allow it to construct buildings taller than those currently allowed under East Cambridge zoning rules. Some residents said they believed the meeting was called to facilitate Alexandria’s plans for development. But City Manager Robert W. Healey denied...
...research facilities. “Cambridge has made a real effort to become a biotech capital of the world, and it has been successful in doing that,” Seidel said. The city council is also considering the sale of 1.2 million square feet of land to Alexandria Real Estate for another new lab space, Seidel said. Pfizer’s new lab will be an addition to the company’s Research Technology Center, founded locally in 1999. Its research will focus on endocrine and cardiac research. It’s counterpart in England will study neural...
...places, Obama volunteers check voters against a database of known voters in the area, compiled through a mixture of door-to-door canvassing and publicly available information. "Names of voters get passed to an outside representative who has a targeted list," says Steven Mostow, 38, a volunteer at an Alexandria polling station. "The list goes to another Obama person who uploads it into a housing database compiled by canvassing door-to-door." Then campaign volunteers in the pin-pointed areas head off to bring inthe voters. "This means a great deal to me because I think...
...Richmond, Virginia Beach and areas of northern Virginia earlier today, according to campaign and state officials. Election officials have temporarily moved to paper ballots to these areas. In addition, some of the ballots in Virginia Beach were damaged by rainfall while they were being brought inside. - By Kris Osborn / Alexandria...
...guard by the subprime crisis. Such bedroom communities have been the worst hit in the state by the economic downturn; before the market plunge, high gas prices and highway congestion topped the list of concerns for those commuting to Washington or the northern Virginia cities of Arlington and Alexandria. This is the new face of Virginia - and the South - one where white working-class voters are being replaced by booming Hispanic and Asian populations and white college students outnumber white seniors 21% to 13%, according to a new Brookings Institution study...