Cambridge councilors put the brakes on Out of Town News revamp; some allege process is rigged

Boston is hopeless, but Cambridge is smaller, the big landowners (Harvard, MIT) have to maintain good public images, and there are a lot of concerned citizen people who can figure out how to make things happen.

Out of Town News is small but symbolic. Like the symbolic Kendall Square Roof Garden, which was taken away from the neighborhood and handed to Google. Via some rule-breaking by some supposedly rogue person pretending to be the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority. And via pressure on the city by Google, and helped by supposed misrepresentations by Google as to why the roof garden was needed. And no one told Google to GFY since other high-tech companies would be happy to fill any square footage across the street from MIT.

But Out of Town News is more visible than the Roof Garden, and is seen on a daily basis by random long-term Harvard fac/staff, who can get concerned enough to get involved in campus or town matters.