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Go for the Enchilada

Posted by Suzanne Bremer at 11:37 am on June 22, 2010

“In budget-cutting season, politics can be brutal,” wrote the author of a recent View from Prospect Hill column in the Somerville News.  With an $8.1 million budget gap, it is imperative that the city cut costs.  However, the current, shortsighted approach, with its focus on outsourcing hourly jobs, will sow the seeds of discord for [...]

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Posted in City Finances, Health Care, Workers' Rights | 13 Comments »

Hotel Davis Square: What’s in it for us?

Posted by Suzanne Bremer at 9:25 pm on March 30, 2008

It isn’t often that the words “surplus” and “parking” are associated with Davis Square. But the request currently before the Board of Alderman to declare three municipal parking lots surplus property in our hippest square does that as well as bring up the long simmering, but little acknowledged question of responsible management of city owned real estate.…

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Posted in Development and Zoning, Politics | 11 Comments »