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• • “A parkway is not a road. It’s a park with a road in it.” (0)
  • Jan Devereux
  • February 13th, 2022
  In early 2022, the state revived its plan to reconstruct Memorial Drive and its greenway paths. This work represents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to restore and enhance the parkland along the Charles River and to make it less auto-dominated and safer for people of all ages and abilities to enjoy. For the past two years I […]
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• • The First Street Garage Disposition Vote: Home Run or Punt? (0)
  • Jan Devereux
  • September 20th, 2019
  In the ninth inning of the Cambridge City Council’s double-header of two very important meetings yesterday (September 18), Councillor Sumbul Siddiqui hit what is being characterized by some as the equivalent of a walk-off home run to wrap up months of heated debate over the First Street Garage Disposition and the future of the Sullivan […]
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• • Anthony Wilson Selected as New City Clerk (0)
  • Jan Devereux
  • June 18th, 2019
  I led the ad hoc committee that worked over the past several months to recruit a new city clerk to replace Donna Lopez once she fully retires. We held a special public meeting on June 17 to interview four finalist candidates, and the City Council voted unanimously to offer the position to Anthony Ivan Wilson, […]
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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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