Nuclear disarmament has its price
By adamg - 10/5/09 - 7:03 am
Seems the Cambridge City Council recently debated nuclear disarmament but tabled a proposed ballot question on the issue after the city manager said a referendum as part of the December senate election would cost about $35,000.
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It's really stupid that
It's really stupid that cities waste time and money on non-binding referendums which have NO EFFECT on national/international policy. National and international policy is the responsibility of higher levels of government.
Having local politicians trying to legislate, or having people vote on non-binding laws, is the equivalent of a solitary mail room manager, and perhaps their staff, claiming to dictate what decisions a major multi-national corporation makes.
Nuclear Cambridge
All this for a city with an HEU reactor in the city limits.
Not that it shouldn't be a concern in a densely populated area - particularly since the NRC refused to shut it down during the Democratic National Convention in 2004. I wonder if people even realize it is there and uses highly-enriched uranium fuel that could be used for a bomb? Maybe that's the local issue - a backhanded drive to shut down the MIT reactor in the name of nonproliferation?
It's a fun thing to point out to out-of-town guests
Hey, look, there's our very own urban nuclear reactor!
If only the BU biolab were as easily identifiable as a potential deathzone.
Cambridge City Councillors told to use their Inside Voices
We have an unusual form of city government in Cambridge.
Bob Healy is the (hired) City Manager. He acts as the adult.
The City Council is elected. They act as the children.
It's the Daycare Government model.
Cambridge Elected Officials
Bunch of clowns.