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Such a politician is Mayor Francis H. Duehay '55 who announced earlier this week that he would retire after his term expired on Jan. 2, 2000. Duehay is a politician who spent his life working to solve those kind of problems. His battles, his triumphs and indeed, his existence tell us one thing: The buck stops at City Hall...
...that is not news. They have been doing it for a long time. Duehay, born and raised in Cambridge, is not an exception to the rule; he is outstanding precisely because he epitomizes the unrecognized successes of local government...
...Duehay truly served the people in Cambridge, shepherding them through such monumental changes as desegregation and the rise and fall of rent control. Even as rent control became less popular, Duehay fought to provide affordable housing to the low income Cantabrigians...
...Duehay presided over the creation of the Open Space Acquisition fund for which $2.5 million has been identified to purchase land under threat of development. More recently, the Green Ribbon Open Space Committee was formed by the council in order to establish criteria for acquiring these kinds of property...
...Duehay epitomizes what local government does right--local people working to find local solutions and lending their expertise and advice to national efforts...