“It is imperative to democracy that there is governmental oversight, especially in Cambridge where we have a strong city manager who’s been in office too long and an anemic City Council that seems to be ineffective in reining him in.”
This paragraph is the fifth paragraph the Cambridge Chronicle’s editorial on page 10 of the edition of October 20, 2011, published on line at. http://www.wickedlocal.com/cambridge/news/opinions/x268459622/Editorial-Coakley-should-take-city-of-Cambridge-s-stonewalling-seriously#axzz1bb63kGDe.
The editorial is a plea to the Massachusetts Attorney General to provide disclosure of the minutes of executive sessions of the Cambridge City Council concerning the handling of the Monteiro cast. The judge’s “reprehensible” comment is featured prominently. The editorial seeks the Attorney General’s action to force disclosure “before Election day [of] details that may change the way voters think of certain sitting councilors.”
The editorial’s description of the Cambridge City Council is too kind.
The jury, judge and appeals court have found that the Cambridge City Manager destroyed the life of Malvina Monteiro in retaliation for her filing a civil rights complaint.
Monteiro fits the stench of environmental outrages.
The superior court decision may be read at: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/judge-issues-decision-denying.html.
The appeals court comments may be read at: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/appeals-court-decision-in-monteiro.html.
A partial summary of DCR outrages may be read at: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/charles-river-connectivity-bizarre.html.
All environmental outrages in Cambridge are coordinated by the DCR with Cambridge. There are many environmental outrages by Cambridge on its own.
NOTE: This is the 700th entry in this blog dating back to November 19, 2005. Before that, commencing on March 6, 2000, we published more than 600 editions of our on line newsletter. The newsletter reached a distribution of over 1300. The computer file of the newsletter contains 646 entries.
