The Cambridge Housing Authority has turned down a request from the group representing its tenants to help fund a local rental-assistance program that could serve immigrants now legally frozen out of CHA housing programs.

“If you’re sensing panic, it’s that we’re kind of out of options on the distribution side,” an Eversource executive warned regulators with say over a project.

City councillors who were shocked to learn this year that the city did not control its own public health department are exploring whether to change the relationship.

The huge Eversource project to build an underground electric substation in Cambridge and add more than 8 miles of underground cables is facing unexpected conflict because of last-minute opposition from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to cable routes through its campus.

The issue of being legally bound to tell authorities if a child or other vulnerable person is at risk of being abused is raising questions about the operation of the city’s planned alternative to police response.

The Covid vaccination rate for children 5 and under is relatively low, but Massachusetts children in that age group have the second-highest rate of infections per 100,000 population, after people 80 and older.

Cambridge is facing much higher and more dangerous temperatures, with predictions that the number of days above 90 degrees could almost triple by 2030 and might be the norm every day of summer by 2070.

Cambridge Health Alliance reinstated masking requirements Monday in all “patient care areas” such as doctors’ offices, emergency rooms and hospital wards.

The vaccine, formulated to protect against serious disease, hospitalization and death from recent coronavirus variants, is advised for everyone over six months.

The dashboard appears to have kept many – but not all – of its promises to shed light on police interactions with the public and examine them for racial bias.