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Yellow pages may soon go green if Cambridge City Councillor Sam Seidel gets his wish. The council voted unanimously on Monday to look into an eco-friendly plan that would allow residents to opt out of having phone books delivered to their front doorstep. “You and all your friends look up most of your phone numbers on the Internet now,” said Seidel, who earned an urban planning degree from the Graduate School of Design in 2001 and won a Council seat last fall. “The Internet has become the new phone book...
...between the University and residents of the Riverside neighborhood.“As I understand it, a variety of neighbors think Harvard has not at all met its commitments,” Kelley writes in an e-mailed statement.The Cowperthwaite dispute highlights a larger issue, according to Councilor Sam Seidel: how universities negotiate building student housing with the surrounding community.“It’s pretty clear the University needs to be working with the council,” Seidel says. “I fully expect that Harvard understands that and has learned that lesson over...
...rely on long-term loyal constituencies. For example, seven-term School Committee incumbent Joseph G. Grassi had the lowest expenditure of any candidate, which McGovern said was because Grassi relied heavily on the votes of few faithful wards. Grassi did not reply to requests for comment. But Councillor Sam Seidel still believes money or incumbency are not the only things that matter. “A lot of it is hard work and shoe leather,” he said. —Staff writer Sarah J. Howland can be reached at showland@fas.harvard.edu
...This is very exciting,” Seidel said with trademark calm and a beer in hand. “If the results hold up, I look forward to the real challenge we’ll have in moving the City Council forward...
...Seidel was not in the room when his victory was announced at the Cambridge Senior Center shortly before midnight yesterday. He had stepped out for a drink at a Central Square tavern and was informed of his apparent victory by his wife, Ann Smith, who sprinted down the street to the bar, local reporters...