Word: localitis
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Knowing that I won't be here for more than a few years after my schooling, [local politics] seems less important," Kartwicki says...
...past five years, the median family income in the Boston area has increased by 23 percent. The cost of a one-bedroom apartment in Cambridge has gone up by more than 50 percent. And--mirroring the national trend--voters have turned out in consistently lower numbers for local elections...
With a polarization of wealth squeezing out the middle class, new residents have less time and need for local government services, leaving a city a dying political community...
...same degree of activism that there was once around local issues," Duehay says...
Instituted in Cambridge in 1969, rent control was a polarizing issue in local politics before it was narrowly defeated in a statewide referendum...