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Contact the CCJ with news, questions, requests, comments Job Openings with City of Cambridge "The president clings to his assertion like a drunk to an empty gin bottle." – Wall Street Journal on Trump's wiretap claim , Mar 21, 2017 Great Responses : When asked by reporters after the "Beer Summit" in 2009 what role President Obama had played, Sgt. James Crowley responded: " He provided the beer. " Quote of the month (Feb 2011) : " Much of the language in the contract is obscure, its costs are not included and the contract has not been published on the city's website. The contract is posted, lost among hundreds of other documents, on a Cambridge blogger's website ." - Summary of the research of a Northeastern Univ. journalism class project targeting Cambridge City Manager Robert Healy published Feb 8 in the Boston Globe and another blogger's website. It's so nice to be dissed by the children. - RW A liberal friend, conventionally "green," once asked me how a scientific issue like global warming had become a battleground in the culture war. I replied that the left had made it one by treating climate change as an imperative for sweeping ideological change. Climate alarmists insist that the earth is doomed unless we radically change the way we live by reducing freedom, limiting choices, and aggrandizing government. The struggle is not about the science of global warming, in short; it's about the theology of global warming - a theology that commands us, in Al Gore's formulation, to "make the rescue of the environment the central organizing principle for civilization." This religious aspect of climate alarmism, which many conservatives and libertarians grasp intuitively, is not often acknowledged openly by its adherents. But now and then it is stated with unabashed directness, as with this headline in the Guardian, an influential London daily, during the Copenhagen conference: "This is bigger than climate change. It is a battle to redefine humanity." Precisely. Jeff Jacoby, Dec 27, 2009, Boston Globe Good quote for Dec 2007 : "I mean, talk about a direct IV into the vein of your support. It's a very efficient way to communicate. They regurgitate exactly and put up on their blogs what you said to them. It is something that we've cultivated and have really tried to put quite a bit of focus on." -- former White House communications director Dan Bartlett, on conservative blogs Good quote for Aug 2007 : “By now, the political blogosphere is to the left what talk radio is to the right. It is a forceful, sometimes demagogic, message-monger organizing tool for the progressive end of the Democratic Party.” - Ellen Goodman, Boston Globe, Aug 10, 2007 column " E-male " In Memory Interesting Fact : Did you know that the color on the top of a fire hydrant indicates the flow rate of water from that hydrant? Blue : 1500+ gal/minute Green : 1000-1499 gal/min Orange : 500-999 gal/min Red : <500 gal/min April 2007 quote : “Quoting Robert Winters, a math instructor at Harvard, who is alleged to be an FBI informant, is like asking the Pope about religion.” -- By R.B., April 18, 2007 Cambridge Ideas Election Day Registration (May 2007) In Search of a Progressive Definition (April 2007) Getting Board and Commissioned (February 2007) Fine Feathered Nests (January 2007) Running Off (November 2006) YouTube animation on Instant Runoff Voting Evolution of a Cambridge Idea (October 2006) The City Clerks and City Managers of Cambridge “Every municipality has its quirks. In Newton, the unofficial anthem is ‘Kumbaya.’ The Cambridge City Council will undoubtedly pass a resolution demanding that yoga be an Olympic sport. Supposedly urbane Boston has an otherwise good mayor that no one can understand.” - Brian McGrory, Boston Globe, Nov 19, 2004 City of Cambridge web site Boston Globe Harvard Crimson Cambridge Recycles Information on Home Composting in Cambridge Stories written by Luis Vasquez for the Cambridge Chronicle THE TASTY DINER of HARVARD SQUARE A film by Federico Muchnik (33½ minutes) Here's Something Worth Watching Oliver Wendell Holmes – Morning Exercises of December 28, 1880 As recorded in the book 250th Anniversary of the Settlement of Cambridge (1881) Cambridge approves smoking ban Notes on the Rent Control Initiative Petition of 2003 Archive of all City Council and School Committee election results, 1941-2017 (PDF) Graffiti Hotline: 617-349-6955 MassINC Harvard Square 1982 Did you drink your two liters of water today? Don't Get Towed! Sign up for street sweeping reminders at http://bostonsweeper.boston.com National Do Not Call Registry Add your phone number(s) to the registry. Remembering Mothers Day Ed Winters, P.F.C, WWII CCJ Editor deep in thought Tweets by @Robert02139 63 confirmed deaths (48 in long-term care facilities, 15 in general community) City of Cambridge Appoints Construction Advisory Group to Plan Safe Reopening Strategy May 4, 2020 – The City of Cambridge announced today the appointment of 22 members to a new City Manager’s Construction Advisory Group. Representing public health, building trade unions, inspectional and public works officials, contractors, ...