With all due respect, a City Council query into the Law Department and its reported surge in requests for public records didn’t go far enough to root out the problem.

Teachers need and deserve to be treated as professionals. Work with the Cambridge Education Association to give them a contract that honors that professionalism.

Economic choices leave traces. Consumers are becoming increasingly thoughtful about how we spend our dollars – but what about how we save them?

Teachers and administrators have been offered an effective salary increase way under current levels of inflation, be evaluated based on test scores and are being asked to take on bigger class sizes and give up consultation on transfers. They’re even being asked to accept assignments as bus and sidewalk and cafeteria monitors.

Though some sectors and groups of businesses are beginning to find their footing again post-pandemic, it’s vital for municipal government and organizations such as Cambridge Local First to help smaller companies – especially those in the hospitality space, and women and economically disadvantaged owners.

Where is the transparency and accountability in the city’s negotiation with Lesley and in the Affordable Housing Trust’s financing for its property?

If the city allows clinics such as ours to be kicked from neighborhood to neighborhood based on the whims of an unrepresentative slice of neighborhood activists, Cambridge would be just like any other community where the wealthy and entrenched can run roughshod over the marginalized.

While there is no shortage of suggestions regarding how to address a teachers’ mental health crisis, suggestions are not enough – action needs to be taken. Failing to do so will have devastating effects for our kids.

Converting the needed portion of drivers from gas to electric within less than eight years is unlikely to happen unless more people are willing to think outside the box – the metal boxes called cars – and to another “e-” option with great potential to reduce emissions, congestion and traffic deaths: the e-bike.

How should we allocate space on our streets in a way that allows the most people to get around safely and conveniently, while meeting our critical climate goals? That’s the question at the heart of the city’s ongoing conversation about how best to redesign Massachusetts Avenue through the Porter Square area.