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Ruth Hibbard Romer, a founder of the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) who helped reform the city's government in the early 1940s, died Saturday morning in a nursing home in Leeds, Mass...
...Romer, who was a long-time member of the Cambridge League of Women Voters, was one of the key activists involved in bringing Plan E government to Cambridge in 1941. Plan E created the proportional representation voting system and set up the current government structure, in which the city council shares power with the city manager...
...Bush has lost a little luster of late, he probably gained some of it back last week when Colorado's bumptious Democratic Governor Roy Romer, in the White House East Room, upbraided the President for his budget and commandeered White House cameras to claim that Bush was making a political pitch. Well now, agree with Bush's budget or not, the President does have a constitutional duty to present his plan. A lapse of good manners is hardly an answer...
...Oklahoma City's economic development director: "We have a done deal." Well, not quite. Colorado has assembled a package worth at least $427 million, including 30 years of tax breaks, in hopes of landing the UAL jewel for the new international airport Denver is building. Governor Roy Romer will call his state legislature into special session next month to approve the goodies. UAL is expected to announce its decision by midsummer...
M.D.C.'s Mizel was even more active in fund raising. Besides organizing the Denver luncheon for President Reagan, he directed a steady stream of dollars to state and national politicians, including Colorado Governor Roy Romer, a Democrat. Lawyer Brownstein, nicknamed Mr. Fixit, was a top Democratic rainmaker who arranged a Denver fund raiser in 1987 for Michigan Senator Don Riegle; Riegle is one of the Senators called the Keating Five for having received sizable contributions from the scandal-tarred head of Lincoln Savings. Of $37,000 raised for Riegle, $10,000 came from 16 people connected to Silverado and M.D.C...