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...club. State Senator Dianne Wilkerson was arrested on Oct. 28 for allegedly accepting bribes exceeding $20,000 in return for her introducing legislation in the State Senate. First elected to the Boston City Council in 1999, Turner is currently in his fifth two-year term as a councilor for District 7, which includes Roxbury, Lower Roxbury and parts of Dorchester, Fenway, and the South End. After graduating from Harvard, Turner served as a community organizer and a civil rights activist for over 40 years, according to the Boston city government’s Web site. Turner could not be reached...
...eighth grade, later this week. “With any luck...some kids could learn how they work and end up working with photovoltaic cells in the future,” said Jason Taylor, a Peabody School parent who spoke during the public comment segment of the meeting. City Councilor Sam Seidel, who requested in September that Healy look into the grants, said he had hoped that the city’s affordable housing projects would be eligible. But the projects are privately-owned, and only city-owned buildings qualify for the grant program, Healy said. If the City does...
Several residents, along with Keefe and City Councilor Sam Seidel, said they hoped that health care would be reformed nationwide under President-elect Barack Obama, possibly preventing CHA from needing to reduce its services...
...There is currently a dispute over who owns the wall: Royal Mail, which wants the mural removed, or the property investment firm Searchgrade, which filed papers to keep the mural, claiming it's an advertisement, according to councilor David Boothroyd, who served on the planning committee that decided the mural should go. The council denied Searchgrade's request and is working to determine the wall's true owner. If it turns out to be Searchgrade, the company may appeal the decision and, ultimately, the mural could stay. Boothroyd guesses that the process will take a few more months...
...budget meetings, Healy had said that taxes would likely go up to accommodate a budget increase, which the Council set as five percent over the summer. Calling the results “phenomenal” in light of the “volatile times,” Councilor David P. Maher also noted that the city is in the midst of building a new library and refurbishing its war memorial. Tax rates in fact increased from the fiscal year 2008 rate from $7.36 to $7.56 per $1,000 of value. Because property values fell slightly in Cambridge over the past...