Cambridge
26°
Editorial: Keeping proportional representation is smart thing to do
By admin
Published: January 18, 2010
Every four years there is a call to abolish the U.S. electoral college. In Cambridge, elections incite calls to end proportional representation — our rare form of voting in which candidates are ranked instead of just chosen or rejected. Let’s not.
Editorial: Church project should be approved with conditions
By admin
Published: January 5, 2010
Sympathies flow first one way, then the other in the case of condominiums proposed to wrap around St. James’s Episcopal Church in Porter Square, mainly depending on the last people who speak on the matter. But the project should go forward.
Editorial: District shouldn’t lock community out of schools
By admin
Published: January 2, 2010
December was the last month at the Maria L. Baldwin School for Design Hive, the fashion and crafts fair run by Cambridge resident and business owner Valerie Fox. This is bad for Cambridge, its schools and its students.
Preliminary election results bring much uncertainty, little cheer
By Marc Levy
Published: November 4, 2009
Cambridge comes out of Election Day knowing very little for certain, and even as names of candidates were announced the unsettled nature of the wins inspired few cheers as accompaniment. Today at 9 a.m., the Election Commission will end the uncertainty.
At the end of the Day, hope for another persists
By Marc Levy
Published: November 28, 2005
This will be the last issue of Cambridge Day, at least for a while. It was an awfully short run — the newspaper started just Oct. 31 — but Cambridge Day was, more or less, an experiment that its small staff hoped would be successful and ran as though it would be. There’s no point [...]
Tinkering with the trains
By Marc Levy
Published: November 28, 2005
The MBTA broadcasts information to T platforms about the proximity of approaching trains. It tells people at Porter Square, for instance, that a southbound train has left Alewife, or that a northbound train has left Kendall. What’s difficult to appreciate about this is that the MBTA doesn’t otherwise deal with “north” or “south.” Train platforms [...]
It’s a brick city, uneven, erratic and a bit dangerous
By Marc Levy
Published: November 18, 2005
In deciding whether bricks have a place on our sidewalks, the answer must be a firm, enduring: Keep the bricks. This means constant maintenance of sidewalks — expensive and tedious tasks that fiscally minded cities would gladly avoid in favor of smooth, bland concrete. Our city manager, Robert Healy, said Monday that if it were [...]
New intelligence on Iraq was ended
By Marc Levy
Published: November 17, 2005
It is bewildering. President Bush stood before hundreds of soldiers on Veterans Day and told them, and the world, that opponents of the Iraq war must remember that “intelligence agencies from around the world agreed with our assessment of Saddam Hussein … the United Nations passed more than a dozen resolutions citing his development and [...]
Information, please, on improving square
By Marc Levy
Published: November 15, 2005
There’s dispute over whether Cambridge is drawing the yearly 2 million, or even 2.5 million, visitors claimed by city boosters, but it’s a good bet that no matter how many tourist there are, most will find their way to Harvard Square. Once there, though, can they find their way around? Can they get to the [...]
For all the right reasons
By Marc Levy
Published: November 11, 2005
Congratulations to the candidates who ran in this election — particularly, of course, to the winners, but everyone who ran deserves thanks. In part, it’s just nice to see a little action, especially with such a dispirited, unmotivated electorate. Among the city’s more than 101,000 residents, more than 56,300 are eligible to vote, but the [...]