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Crime is lowest in 40 years, report says
By Marc Levy
Published: July 31, 2010
The first release from the Cambridge Police Department’s BridgeStat program — designed to share crime-fighting information with the public — tracks 40 years of data to reveal crime is at its lowest, thanks to a marked decline in property crime and slight decline in violent crime.
Police told man will survive being shot in back of neck
By Marc Levy
Published: July 30, 2010
A 22-year-old man was shot in the back of the neck at about 2 a.m. Friday at Bishop Allen Drive and Columbia Street, near Central Square, police said.
Shrugging off iPad, maker of e-reader screens expands in Cambridge
By Marc Levy
Published: July 28, 2010
With Apple selling 3 million iPads in three months and makers of e-readers dropping out of competition, e-Ink might have cause to be worried. But the Cambridge-based maker of e-reader screens is expanding and hiring.
University layoffs draw 100-plus crowd to City Hall meeting
By Marc Levy
Published: July 27, 2010
A Monday meeting sparked by layoffs at city universities was “a tentative success,” said Leland Cheung, who called the meeting as chairman of the City Council’s university relations committee.
Hard to explain, impossible to miss: Rave meets comedy at Crisco Theque
By Marc Levy
Published: July 26, 2010
Mehran Khagani is in the midst of a media frenzy in which he’s explaining being in a vortex of creativity. What he’s trying to explain is Crisco Theque, his Aug. 6 show at Oberon in Harvard Square, which will be part comedy show, part rave.
Commission on Central Square ‘Delights and Concerns’ launches in August
By Marc Levy
Published: July 24, 2010
City councillor Ken Reeves will lead a “Red Ribbon Commission on the Delights and Concerns of Central Square,” with the first meeting set for Aug. 3.
Greyhound can’t explain large fee added to bus ticket
By Marc Levy
Published: July 23, 2010
What does a $22 one-way Greyhound bus ticket cost? If you’re paying your own way and you guessed $22, you’re right. But if someone is paying for you, or if you’re paying for someone else, a $22 ticket costs $40.
Senior picnic set for Harvard Yard in August
By Marc Levy
Published: July 23, 2010
The Harvard Senior Picnic — with the appropriate theme of “Summer in the City” — will be at 11 a.m. Aug. 4, Mayor David P. Maher and Drew Gilpin Faust, president of Harvard University, announced this week.
Green line design will fix platform flaw
By Marc Levy
Published: July 22, 2010
Design of the seven T stations to be built as part of the green line extension project doesn’t formally begin until fall, but there is one part of the plans that is certain: The stations will have central platforms on a single level, ensuring riders don’t have to leave and pay again if they realize they were headed in the wrong direction.
Housing is hopeless, fatherhood daunting, but at least there’s ‘No Good News’
By Marc Levy
Published: July 22, 2010
“There Is No Good News: A Comedy” was pitched to ImprovBoston comedy club as being about the U.S. financial crisis. Then writer and monologist David Mogolov found out his wife was pregnant. The show and the baby had “the same gestation period,” and both changed quite a bit from their conception.