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...good news traveled fast. As a leftist, Bologna's incoming mayor Sergio Cofferati was sure to be a friend to the city's most marginalized. And so an illegal encampment of Roma refugees on the city's outskirts began attracting new residents. "Word was spreading," recalls Bologna immigration chief Fausto Amelii, "that the new administration was going to take care of them...
...Cofferati was indeed a friend, he turned out to be the kind who tells you what you don't want to hear - in this case, "Camp closed!" In 2005, nine months after his election, the mayor ordered the swift dismantling of the encampment, plus checks on the legal status of its 120 occupants and an inspection of all unofficial housing in Bologna. The city of 373,000 helped families find temporary accommodation, but made legalità a top priority...
...said committee member Richard Harding, Jr. “You can’t just give money and say ‘do whatever you want with it.’ If you do, the money might not be well-spent.” Cambridge Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves ’72 agreed with Harding’s assessment. “In education, if you don’t focus on a few things, you can get lost,” Reeves said. Nolan retaliated with statistics from the 2005 fiscal year that compared Cambridge school expenditures with...
...membership of its Neighborhood Safety Committee, a task force charged with addressing crime problems following a rise in robberies and assaults during the summer of 2006. However, much of the furor surrounded the Cambridge Chronicle, a local newspaper that has recently published several editorials criticizing the management of Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves ’72 in forming the Committee. During last week’s meeting, Councillor E. Denise Simmons put forth a resolution that would have increased the number of Committee members “from the neighborhoods that have been hit hardest by crime—Riverside...
...river concerned about the University’s role in Allston development. The director of the BRA—the agency that oversees the city’s construction and renewal projects—retired last month after nearly eight years serving the city in that capacity. Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino is planning to appoint a new leader to replace the current acting director. The Mayor’s office declined requests for comment. In mid-January, the University unveiled an institutional master plan for Allston that forecasts development as far into the future as 2057. If Krieger were...