6. Reverse the bad example provided by the city council.
7. Stop wasting money destroying the environment. End their attacks on the environment and its wild life and start giving responsible examples.
8. Would allow in bars.
9. There is nothing which keeps such businesses from opening now.
10. I used to love the Wursthaus.
11. Long-running pool game at the Cambridgeport Saloon which started at the Bow and Arrow in Harvard Square.
Carole Bellew
1. I definitely would have voted for the compromise. Cambridge desperately needs more housing that middle-income and working families and graduate students can afford. I am very sympathetic with the neighbors’ concerns and would have paid closer attention to zoning before Harvard considered building on the property than those on the current council did.
2. Harvard and MIT have a tremendous amount to offer Cambridge, especially as resources to improve our schools. I think the City needs to be more receptive to these opportunities and also more accommodating to the needs of Harvard faculty and students.
3. I think that the payment should be increased somewhat but that the universities should also support their students and faculty members becoming more involved in helping fill city needs.
4. I do not think that rent control is the best way forward at this point. Cambridge will not get an exemption from the statewide ban under the current state legislature leadership or governor and we need more immediate solutions to the housing crisis.
5. Cambridge should increase support for grants and loans to first-time homebuyers and those who are willing to create more middle-income housing. Programs like Section 8 should be created to help middle-income people who do not qualify for the current program but desperately need assistance.
6. Currently, there are too many openings on the police force that need to be filled. We need to carefully review the police department and make sure that we have a force that is competent and receptive to community policing efforts that work with local community organizations.
7. We need to allow the new superintendent the time to reform our system and get the outstanding public education that we’re paying for. Meanwhile, we need to have a more transparent budget so that we know that the funding is making it to teachers and classrooms, rather than the central administration. Cambridge also needs to take advantage of Harvard and MIT’s potential as a resource, both for their expertise and their students with interest in public service.
8. Yes, but I wouldn’t have hoped to accomplish a little more with two years on the council.
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