Globe Editorial
FROM TIME to time, owners of second homes petition for voting privileges in their vacation communities, claiming resident rights even if their roots are as tenuous as the weekend weather. In 2006, the Cambridge City Council approved an ordinance allowing 17-year-old students to vote in municipal elections (the Legislature declined to enact the home-rule law). Now a movement is building ... (Full article: 460 words)
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