Posts from May 2019

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• • City Council Agenda Highlights (6/3/19) (0)
  • Jan Devereux
  • May 31st, 2019
  The Cambridge City Council will met on Monday, June 3, 2019, at 5:30pm. The agenda is posted on here. The Council will meet all four Mondays in June and then will take a break from regular meetings until the Special Summer Meeting on July 29. Committee hearings will continue over the recess; in fact, an […]
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• • Why Cambridge might remove the Massachusetts flag from its City Council chamber (0)
  • Jan Devereux
  • May 19th, 2019
  We voted unanimously to support a pending state resolution to create a special commission to study replacing the Commonwealth’s official seal and flag, which are subject to growing criticism from indigenous peoples and others for the use of symbols of oppression of native peoples. During the May 13 City Council meeting I suggested removing the […]
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• • Cambridge’s Vice Mayor Devereux announces she will not seek reelection (0)
  • Jan Devereux
  • May 19th, 2019
  I announced my decision not to seek re-election for a third term on the City Council. Here is the text of the email I sent on May 14 to my mailing list: “It’s May in an odd year and political engines are warming up across Cambridge. But you won’t hear any noise coming from my […]
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• • City Council Agenda Highlights (5/20/19) (0)
  • Jan Devereux
  • May 17th, 2019
  The Cambridge City Council will hold a regular meeting on Monday, May 20, 2019, at 5:30pm. The agenda is posted here. City Manager’s Agenda #1 Budget Hearings Follow-Up Information: During the budget hearings earlier this month we asked for more information about the amount to be spent in FY20 across all city departments on anti-bias […]
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