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CRA to meet at same time as council; legality of past actions to be examined, Maher says

By Marc Levy
May 16, 2012
How the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority chose that meeting time is unclear, but the legality of equally muddy past actions could be cleared up at a June 5 meeting of a City Council subcommittee.
By Marc Levy
May 15, 2012
Cambridge’s Paul Toner was re-elected president of the 107,000-member Massachusetts Teachers Association at the association’s annual meeting of delegates Saturday.
By Marc Levy
May 14, 2012
It’s been a rough year for the breast cancer charity Susan G. Komen for the Cure, and a document arriving June 1 suggests the troubles aren’t over. In the meantime, the local chapter has released some $900,000 to state nonprofits.
By Marc Levy
May 3, 2012
After a sparsely attended 9 a.m. Wednesday budget hearing focused attention on the city’s information technology issues, and what some see as its complacency and failings in the area of technological progress and safety, a “world cafe” on the issue was announced the next day.
By Marc Levy
MIT plans to remake Kendall Square with 300 units of housing and to allow direct access to the canal, river and between the school’s Infinite Corridor and Sloan School won approval at a Planning Board meeting. Its developer’s plans in Central Square didn’t go over as well.
By Marc Levy
May 1, 2012
City councillors eulogized two men during their Monday meeting, saddened that Cambridge saw the death of two great, black educators on the same day — but while their mourning for Leslie Kimbrough was certainly appropriate, Charles Stead is alive.
By Marc Levy
April 26, 2012
There was an urgent tone to Wednesday’s meeting on the future of Kendall Square, but the build-tall solution seen by the city’s consultant drew pushback from a city councillor for the first time since work began a year ago.
By Marc Levy
April 25, 2012
Cambridge is part of the most peaceful area in the country, according to the Institute for Economics & Peace’s United States Peace Index for the year and a USA Today story being touted by the the city.
By Marc Levy
The plan for Kendall Square getting a 4 p.m. hearing today with the City Council leans heavily on a block-sized park on what is now a federal transportation research center. What makes consultant Goody Clancy so sure land will be available? Politics.
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Features  
By Marc Levy
May 15, 2012
A Sunday event will show the Cambridge origins of everything from the sewing machine and fire hoses to frozen orange juice, vaccines and venture capital.
By Marc Levy
May 14, 2012
Before the comedian and storyteller appears Saturday at the YMCA in Central Square, he shares suggestions for the enjoying the good life from Inman Square to the “Forbidden Zone.”
By Marc Levy
May 10, 2012
Are LOLCats making us smart? Is journalistic objectivity a trap? Can the media answer these questions, or just con people into reading articles that ask them? There are further questions about the maker of e-reader screens, but answers from Harvard for the needs of charter schools.
By Marc Levy
May 7, 2012
What does this Kendall Square sign say? Not what its designer thinks it does.
By Marc Levy
May 1, 2012
If it seems odd for a charity fighting childhood obesity to make food the reward for fundraising, rest assured it’s not hot dogs awaiting bicyclists after the Breakaway Charity Ride scheduled for May 20, but a gourmet grilled meal by chef Paul O’Connell of Chez Henri.
By Jay Neely
April 29, 2012
Sunday brings the annual Mayfair in Harvard Square, with vendors, music and dance acts, all your favorite fair food and special events. Harvard Square is a great place to explore anytime of year, but Mayfair makes it 10 times so.
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Commentary
By Marc Levy
May 7, 2012
I’d say Cambridge deranges Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr, but I suspect Cambridge is nothing special in this regard.
By Marc Levy
April 23, 2012
The majority of councillors seem a superstitious lot, prone to thinking the camera steals one’s soul, and the mayor is determined to run services with a fundamentalist fervor for the explicit word of the tribe’s bible, namely Robert’s Rules of Order.
By Marc Levy
April 5, 2012
The only thing dumber than the way the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority is being run is trying to excuse the way the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority is being run, but on Monday the authority’s executive director and Cambridge’s city manager dared to be dumb.
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Letters
By admin
April 8, 2012
Enabled by the generosity of funders such as Cambridge Trust Co. and the Biogen Idec and MetLife foundations, the Cambridge Symphony Orchestra share enthusiasm for live orchestral and chamber music with new audiences and seasoned concertgoers.
By admin
March 19, 2012
Google has the power to do this rooftop garden decision right. It’s important to consider the recent history of its landlord, Boston Properties.
By admin
March 12, 2012
Worries raised about the academic challenge policy recommended by Superintendent Jeffrey Young and passed by the School Committee are addressed by committee member Marc McGovern.
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By Marc Levy
May 14, 2012
Add Estella Johnson, director of economic development for the city, to the list of retiring city officials. After 10 years with the city, Johnson’s last day on the job is May 23.
By Marc Levy
May 11, 2012
Chipotle Mexican Grill really, really likes Cambridge. With upcoming sites in Central and Kendall square, the chain covers nearly all the red line above Boston.
By Marc Levy
May 7, 2012
Pemberton Farms & Garden Center, owned and managed by the Saidnawey family, has earned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Energy Star certification, signifying that the building performs in the top 25 percent of such facilities nationwide.
By Marc Levy
May 6, 2012
There’s a repeat this week of a free two-part workshop on “Personal Budget Management,” with this one moving to a Cambridgeport community center.
By Marc Levy
April 25, 2012
Understanding, maximizing your credit score and improving your credit get a two-part workshop in May that is free to residents.
By Marc Levy
April 9, 2012
A two-part workshop on “Personal Budget Management” is offered free to residents to teach ways to save money, create a budget and make your money work for you.
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Arts+Culture
By Marc Levy
May 16, 2012
Why do people collect T-shirts? Sometimes it’s because they attend comedy shows such as “Ken Reid’s Shirt Tales,” running Saturday at the Central Square YMCA to explore that very question, and come away with a free one.
By Marc Levy
May 14, 2012
June is shaping up well for visits by exciting new bands, with London’s 2:54 set to play June 13 and New York’s MS MR vowing to find a venue to play. Here’s hoping.
By Marc Levy
May 12, 2012
The concept behind the May 19 performance of the Cambridge Symphony Orchestra is intriguing on its own: letters by soldiers from the Civil War, World War II and the Vietnam War set to music by a Pulitzer Prize-nominated composer
By Marc Levy
May 8, 2012
The Cambridge Community Chorus wraps up its annual auction Friday — the chorus is nearly halfway to its goal of $10,000 — and presents its Spring Concert at 8 p.m. Saturday at Harvard University’s Sanders Theater.
By Marc Levy
May 5, 2012
A series of monthly film screenings called Cambridge Nights, featuring professionally projected shorts made by locals, begins Sunday.
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