While BioMed builds its jewel box and walled garden, who’s making sure our cultural ecology also has rocks to hurl and mud to squish between our toes?

Proposed “missing middle” zoning looks to benefit mid-income earners who want an opportunity to buy properties in Cambridge and gain equity long term. For those who are not that, it has nothing to do with them.

At the fridge and pantry set up in Harvard square, people can donate what they can, and take what they need.

Under the “Missing Middle” zoning proposal, existing double- and triple-decker properties would be irresistible to developers, and could be torn down and their tenants evicted. The resulting new units would sell for millions of dollars.

“She said that a friend had told her some people were trying to prevent this affordable housing building from going up, and the friend had tried to enlist her in opposing the opposition. I said, I’m one of those opposers, but let’s talk.”

There are many possibilities for a new name for the Agassiz neighborhood, and voting should follow our ranked-choice proportional representation ballot where your vote counts even if your top favorites are eliminated.

Though President Donald Trump has since left office, the impact of his words have persisted and compounded at an alarming rate.

School reforms alone will not change persistent inequalities. The most effective solution is through, comprehensive zoning reform and enforcement of fair housing laws on the state and local levels.

A City Council committee hearing about neighborhood groups – their successes and challenges and how the city can better support them – was great, but not all groups attended. And there is still work to be done at making all feel welcome at neighborhood meetings and City Council meetings.

The coronavirus has shown that medicine must reconsider its at-times misplaced boundaries. Our responsibility does not start when a patient enters the hospital, or end with their departure.