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City Council: Election 2003

Twenty candidates are on the ballot for today’s Cambridge City Council election—all nine incumbent councillors plus 11 challengers. The Crimson posed 11 questions to them on the eve of the election.

3. The benchmark I would work from would be the equivalent of property taxes of all university property in the city.

4. It’s not going to happen.

5. Ask the city manager what options we can do to make the city commons safer.

6. Make the police department more open and accessible.

7. Make sure we don’t let politics intrude into the school committee. We need to let the school committee and superintendent do what they can do to lower the achievement gap.

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8. I think it’s an important step forward for worker health.

9. When I was an undergraduate at Harvard, I was actually involved in politics, and that’s how I got my start...I’ve had a number of students help with my campaign.

11. Have a bite of dessert at Toscanini’s, drop into Harvard Bookstore, hear some street performers.

Kenneth E. Reeves ’72

1. I think the compromise was done by the citizens. We voted to accept what the citizens recommended.”

2. Harvard and the city should work on how Harvard could be an asset to the school system. It would be most helpful in particularly the math and sciences. The city and Harvard could organize a program to allow Harvard math and science professors to spend, literally, a year in our school system, with science and math teachers. The goal would be to enrich the teaching.

3. Between 8 and 12 million.

4. If the ballot question wins by overwhelming majority, the council should ask the legislature for home rule authority.

5. It should continue coming up with innovative programs, like those programs that will give up to $210,000 dollars toward the purchase of a home. I think we should continue with our inclusionary zoning efforts. We should encourage Harvard and MIT to involve themselves in the affordable housing shortage and crisis.

6.  We could do a better job of having better police controls and walking police controls...We have to hold the police more accountable to actually solve crimes. We have a number of unsolved murders.

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