Surging food stamp recipients leave town to stretch spending

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Published: April 1, 2011 at 09:00 AM

Even affluent Cambridge has nearly doubled its food stamp recipients in the past four years. But getting food benefits in Cambridge doesn’t mean recipients can afford to spend them in Cambridge, and more than half those funds are spent over the border.

No solution for same-sex tax? No way, councillors say

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Published: March 10, 2011 at 01:05 AM

City councillors rejected an assertion by the city manager that Cambridge can’t help same-sex married couples suffering from inequities in the federal tax code, sending the problem back to him Monday for another go.

Smoke and mirrors? Image reflected is Republicans’

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Published: January 9, 2011 at 06:40 PM

Something to keep in mind as Republicans propose finance bills and talk about cutting deficits in the coming two years: Knowing that, as Stephen Colbert said, “Reality has a well-known liberal bias,” they do whatever they can to level the playing field.

Magazine lauds Mount Auburn Hospital

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Published: November 30, 2010 at 10:30 AM

Mount Auburn Hospital gets props as a top community hospital in the December issue of Boston magazine, its annual “top doctors” issue.

Teen academy gives peek into police work

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Published: July 19, 2010 at 10:21 PM

Cambridge teens are learning what it’s like to be police officer, including self-defense training and becoming certified in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the Heartsaver program, as part of the city’s annual Youth Police Academy.

GLBT Commission wins city help in supporting closeted seniors

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Published: July 9, 2010 at 08:24 PM

Being part of a commission without a staff has never deterred John Gintell from doing work he cares about — improving the lives of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transsexuals or transgendered people in Cambridge — but he’s also never stopped seeking city-funded personnel to help with the work.

Suspense novelist holding signing haunted Cambridge for setting, character

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Published: July 2, 2010 at 06:32 PM

For a New Hampshire writer, Lisa Gardner spends a lot of time around Boston. For her latest novel, “Live to Tell,” she spent a lot of time in Cambridge — specifically at the Cambridge Health Alliance Child Assessment Unit, which served as Gardner’s model for a pediatric psychiatry unit in a plot that involves child murderers.

For whatever reason, Cantabrigians vote Ronald McDonald can retire

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Published: June 6, 2010 at 02:56 PM

The campaign to disappear Ronald McDonald was outside Porter Square Books on Friday, with workers saying their work collecting signatures for a petition was a success. Of course it was.

Councillors vote to split handling health, environment concerns

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Published: March 25, 2010 at 07:21 PM

The Health & Environment Committee will be split into two three-member panels, one to oversee community health and the other for the environment, the Government Operations & Rules Committee decided Thursday.

Fast, furious action gives council motion sickness; most committees assigned

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Published: March 24, 2010 at 10:54 PM

What happened at the end of Monday’s meeting of the City Council? Even to city officials who were there the flurry of motions and political and emotional agendas were a bit bewildering.

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