A half-fare program for lower-income riders on the struggling MBTA could roll out this spring and summer if approved in a vote set for the end of this month.
Working with disengaged kids is about relationships, but attendance policies allow for disengagement without prioritizing connections that might turn it around.
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s St. Patrick’s Day and Prince, choreography by Crispr DNA editing, the North Cambridge Family Opera, a Danehy Park documentary and fascination with fungi.
An Appeals Court decision came the same day Cambridge’s City Council asked the city to include money in the next city budget for legal representation for any lower-income tenant threatened with eviction in Housing Court.
During the Covid pandemic, filmmaker and educator Federico Muchnik had his own crisis unfold within the global one. He found his way back by filming community at Cambridge‘s Danehy Park with footage that became a documentary, “Open Space.”
Public meetings this week look at how aging affects driving skills, an affordable-Internet program’s end and a recreational pot shop proposed for Davis Square.
Any lower-income Cambridge tenant who wants legal help fighting an eviction should get it for free, and money should be allocated in the next municipal budget to make that happen, city councillors told the city manager Monday.
Nataliya Yufa’s experiences growing up in an oppressed Ukraine and dazzling but economically out of reach New York shaped her work as a founder and leader of the nonprofit Cambridge Math Circle, which aims to widen access to the sciences.
Public meetings this week look an Armory master plan, alternatives to rat-trap poison, resident displacement and aid to the unhoused, a students’ health survey trivia event delated from Feb. 1 and talk about a wage theft ordinance.