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...state $6 to $9 billion over the next two years. Throughout the state, towns and cities have submitted thousands of shovel-ready projects—immediately actionable proposals—in the hopes of receiving funding from the stimulus package, and Cambridge was no different. According to City Councillor Craig A. Kelley, Cambridge has a large list of projects that require funding—including street work, sewer reconstruction, and a renovation of Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School. Cambridge budget director David J. Kale said that the financial stimulus will “take pressure off local revenues?...
Murphy, a councillor since 1999 and a long-term member of the ordinance and finance committees, has already begun his new job as deputy secretary for governmental affairs with the Mass. Executive Office of Transportation...
...Cambridge Chronicle reports that Murphy, formerly a full-time city councillor and dad, will see a significant pay raise, from $66,000 a year...
...planned research was “important to the bigger picture of health all over the world” and that halting construction “would be a serious step back in the relationship you’ve built with all of us.”City Councillor Mark Ciommo similarly argued that with “all the bright minds” at Harvard, it would be irresponsible to abandon construction of the science complex. “There’s too many vacant properties in this community as it is,” Ciommo said, noting...
...eight locations in the city, citing concerns about the preservations of civil liberties. The cameras, which were installed last year but have yet to be activated, were funded by a federal Homeland Security grant program. The cameras were intended to monitor traffic during emergency evacuations, according to City Councillor Craig A. Kelley. But during the public comment segment of the meeting, citizens suggested that the potential civil liberties threats posed by the cameras outweighed any potential benefits. “They are the local manifestation of the closing down of our privacy,” said Nancy Ryan, former president...