Comments on: Reeves to Menino: Cambridge is the Brains of Biotech http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2007/07/26/reeves-to-menino-cambridge-is-the-brains-of-biotech/ Business + Technology in the Exponential Economy Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:44:11 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: amalia sodi http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2007/07/26/reeves-to-menino-cambridge-is-the-brains-of-biotech/comment-page-1/#comment-46579 amalia sodi Tue, 17 Feb 2009 03:30:36 +0000 http://www.xconomy.com/2007/07/26/reeves-to-menino-cambridge-is-the-brains-of-biotech/#comment-46579 Ken Reeves is now a City Councilor not Mayor of the People's Republic. The Mayor is the Honorable Denise Simmons. As for the residents of East Cambridge, no one on the City Council cares about their safety or what they think. Go ahead Councilor Reeves, keep bragging about bringing Level 3 labs into one the most densely populated neighborhoods in the country. Great achievement with two charter schools, three elderly/disabled housing complexes, two housing projects and no evacuation plan in the event of accident. Go ahead, Councilor Reeves, keep bragging. Ken Reeves is now a City Councilor not Mayor of the People’s Republic. The Mayor is the Honorable Denise Simmons. As for the residents of East Cambridge, no one on the City Council cares about their safety or what they think. Go ahead Councilor Reeves, keep bragging about bringing Level 3 labs into one the most densely populated neighborhoods in the country. Great achievement with two charter schools, three elderly/disabled housing complexes, two housing projects and no evacuation plan in the event of accident. Go ahead, Councilor Reeves, keep bragging.

]]> By: Richard http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2007/07/26/reeves-to-menino-cambridge-is-the-brains-of-biotech/comment-page-1/#comment-226 Richard Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:45:49 +0000 http://www.xconomy.com/2007/07/26/reeves-to-menino-cambridge-is-the-brains-of-biotech/#comment-226 You go, Ken. The Mayor (Reeves, that is) has it right. You have to wonder, though, if the "Cantabridgian-on-the-street" gets it. Get a bit west of Kendall, or into the residential streets of adjacent East Cambridge, and anyone not immediately involved seems more or less unaware of who's who in Kendall, or even if it's "really" Cambridge, for that matter. This seems related to the local sport of MIT & Harvard bashing, especially where development is involved. (Is there any message here in Harvard's long-term plans for major expansion into Allston?) No matter. Cambridge has bragging rights, at least for the time being, and that doesn't seem to be endangered. You go, Ken. The Mayor (Reeves, that is) has it right.

You have to wonder, though, if the “Cantabridgian-on-the-street” gets it. Get a bit west of Kendall, or into the residential streets of adjacent East Cambridge, and anyone not immediately involved seems more or less unaware of who’s who in Kendall, or even if it’s “really” Cambridge, for that matter. This seems related to the local sport of MIT & Harvard bashing, especially where development is involved. (Is there any message here in Harvard’s long-term plans for major expansion into Allston?)

No matter. Cambridge has bragging rights, at least for the time being, and that doesn’t seem to be endangered.

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