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Emails Reveal State Officials’ Flawed Excuses For Taking Away Riverbend Park Access in Cambridge

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Emails obtained under the Massachusetts Public Records law reveal how Governor Healey’s newly-hired Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs, Rebecca Tepper, decided to restrict access to public parkland by cancelling her agency’s popular car-free Saturdays on Memorial Drive in Cambridge earlie...

Emails Reveal State Officials' Flawed Excuses For Taking Away Riverbend Park Access in Cambridge - Streetsblog Massachusetts

Also on Cambridge Day https://www.cambridgeday.com/2023/07/26/release-of-document-trove-about-riverbend-park-raises-questions-on-decker-account-dcr-decision/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=release-of-document-trove-about-riverbend-park-raises-questions-on-decker-account-dcr-decision

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Decker seems like a real slimy one. Refuses to state whether they are for or against it while working behind the scenes to end the Saturday closures.
- Yeah I agree. What jumps out to me is that the other rep on this openly supports the Saturday closures, while Decker says... nothing? She really can't say whether or not she supports it? Doesn't take a big stretch to read between the lines there that she's against but just doesn't want to take the political flak from saying it.