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Councillors Waste Time

DISSENT

By Jonathan A. Lewin

The People's Republic of Cambridge has always acted as it has seen fit. Cambridge councillors and politicians rarely listen to the citizens they represent.

Asking them to do otherwise is futile. Let them drag rent control--a very dead horse--through the dirt. The time they waste will prevent them from doing more damaging things. And Gov. Weld can simply veto whatever they produce at the end of the day.

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