I wish I could say that the Cambridge Development Department’s inclusionary housing program has made changes in the past year. If they have, I haven’t seen it.

For millennia before this area became known as Cambridge, it was called Anmoughcawgen – in the Algonquin Natick dialect, “fishing weir” or “beaver dam,” which described the neighborhoods from Alewife to Kendall/MIT. A Participatory Budgeting project will return traditional Eastern Woodland languages to city property.