Councillors seek to extend city manager’s contract while they plan succession

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Published: March 17, 2012 at 01:11 PM

A policy order to be discussed Monday adds nine months to the contact of 30-year City Manager Robert W. Healy, having it expire June 30, 2013 instead of Sept. 30, and proposes coming up with short-and long-term succession plans for when Healy leaves.

MBTA protest disappoints, and the whole situation irritates

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Published: March 14, 2012 at 04:46 PM

I was disappointed in, and resentful of, the lunchtime “flash mob” protesting MBTA cuts Wednesday at Boston’s Transportation Building. I went for a while, gritting my teeth, irritated that the protest was necessary and even kind of irritated by the protest itself.

Harvard students were not arrested in West Bank

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Published: March 14, 2012 at 12:53 AM

The Harvard Crimson is correcting reports that 55 Harvard students were arrested in the West Bank by Israeli border guards, noting that the students were actually just “redirected to a nearby Israeli checkpoint.”

Save the T! MAPC lets riders play with budget fixes online

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Published: March 8, 2012 at 04:58 PM

The state’s mass transit agency has been asking residents how to solve its immediate $161 million deficit — with riders facing higher costs and less service as a killer incentive — but now the Metropolitan Area Planning Council has made it a little more, well, fun.

Mayor Davis hands out committee assignments, with Maher in key roles

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Published: March 6, 2012 at 03:34 AM

New Mayor Henrietta Davis handed out committee assignments Monday to her fellow city councillors, with David Maher in position once again to potentially negotiate a contract for City Manager Robert W. Healy.

First, Harvard, MIT Republicans seek state committee seats. Then they face their city.

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Published: March 3, 2012 at 05:22 PM

Young Republicans in Cambridge have it pretty tough, but Cambridge is fielding its fair share of young candidates for the Tuesday elections to the Republican State Committee. One from Harvard, and one from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Worried voices of disabled stand out amid hours of testimony at MBTA hearing

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Published: March 1, 2012 at 01:03 AM

A roughly four-hour meeting held by the MBTA about public transit fare hikes and service cuts facing Cambridge and the state heard the worries and anger of high school students, representatives of the Occupy movement, work commuters and especially the disabled.

Government shuts door on Cambridge Housing Authority’s urgent bid

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Published: February 24, 2012 at 04:34 PM

The federal government is moving to close a loophole that Cambridge Housing Authority officials hoped would give them the millions of dollars they say they need to preserve the city’s public housing developments, home to Cambridge’s poorest residents.

Council’s 10th ballot elects Henrietta Davis as mayor

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Published: February 22, 2012 at 11:43 PM

Henrietta Davis was elected mayor Wednesday at a special meeting of the City Council, exactly as far into the year as David Maher was elected mayor in 2010. A mysterious tweeter claimed to know of “the backroom deal” some two hours before the vote.

Just across the river, Patrick and Murray seem unreachable on mass transit

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Published: February 22, 2012 at 10:30 PM

With a mass transit crisis facing Cambridge and the state, a lack of action from Gov. Deval Patrick and ill-advised attempt at action by Lt. Gov. Tim Murray seems nothing short of shocking.

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