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KEN BROCINER

OPINION: SOME HOPES AND WISHES FOR 2022 AND BEYOND

Photo by Eric Kilby, Flickr “I hope and trust that our city will continue to thrive as it has for the last 18 years.” May the coming year (or two) be the last ones in which this damn pandemic hangs over the entire world like a never-ending plague. I hope

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KEN BROCINER January 4, 2022
SHIRA LAUCHAROEN

BOARD OF HEALTH TO VOTE ON PROOF OF VACCINATION POLICY

Photo by Marc A. Hermann While facing questions about the fate of small businesses, the Board postponed the vote to mid-January (Somerville Wire) – The City of Somerville’s Board of Health met to discuss a proof of vaccine policy for certain businesses on Dec. 21 but decided to push the

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SHIRA LAUCHAROEN January 4, 2022
SHIRA LAUCHAROEN

SOMERVILLE WIRE: December 21, 2021 WEEKLY ROUNDUP

Mayor Curtatone’s farewell speech, a campaign to support Somerville students, and the flag raising on Prospect Hill Announcement The Somerville Wire will be returning on Jan. 4. Have a happy holidays, and see you in the new year! Survey SOMERVILLE LOCAL NEWS SURVEY The Somerville Wire is part of the

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SHIRA LAUCHAROEN December 21, 2021
KEN BROCINER

OPINION: THE ‘TAKEOVER’ OF SOMERVILLE FALLS FLAT

 “Vows to ‘takeover’ our city’s political agenda clearly backfired.” The Boston chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America had a rude awakening on election day. The city of Somerville wasn’t ready to be taken over by a Boston-based group that backed a slate of candidates who did their best to

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KEN BROCINER November 23, 2021
SHIRA LAUCHAROEN

KATJANA BALLANTYNE TO BRING CULTURE OF INCLUSION AS MAYOR

The newly elected leader on a historic turning point in Somerville’s government (Somerville Wire) – Mayor-elect and City Councilor Katjana Ballantyne knows what it means to see things from the other side of the fence. As an orphan born in Greece, she was adopted by a Scottish man and a

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SHIRA LAUCHAROEN November 9, 2021
SHIRA LAUCHAROEN

CURTATONE SPEAKS OUT ABOUT FORMATION OF PUBLIC BANK

Mayoral candidates also weighed in on whether the Commonwealth should build this entity (Somerville Wire) – Mayor Joe Curtatone voiced his support for the creation of a public bank in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on Oct. 26. The Metro Mayors Coalition, a “group of [15] cities and towns in the

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SHIRA LAUCHAROEN November 2, 2021
PAT JEHLEN

OPINION: ONE TOOL AGAINST DISPLACEMENT, RENT HIKES, SPECULATION

“TOPA would allow communities to slow displacement and gentrification by removing some homes from the for-profit, speculative, escalating market, and making them permanently affordable.” Speculators are driving up prices, blocking new home-buyers, and promoting destabilization of neighborhoods, displacement of long-time residents, and gentrification. Is this inevitable? Those issues were the

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PAT JEHLEN November 2, 2021
RAND WILSON

ALL OF THE CANDIDATES IN SOMERVILLE CALL THEMSELVES “PROGRESSIVE”—SO WHO SHOULD I VOTE FOR?

“If we truly want better outcomes, we need to elect people who are committed to being accountable to a grassroots movement”

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RAND WILSON October 29, 2021
KEN BROCINER

OPINION: WHO TO SUPPORT IN THE AT-LARGE RACES?

Ken Brociner offers his take on the candidates running for councilor-at-large

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KEN BROCINER October 23, 2021
SHIRA LAUCHAROEN

SOMERVILLE WIRE: October 19, 2021 WEEKLY ROUNDUP

A mayoral candidate debate, a councilor-at-large debate, and a City forum on ARPA funding.

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SHIRA LAUCHAROEN October 19, 2021
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