Eleven starting points for easing youth violence
What can be done about recent youth violence in Cambridge? It is important that we discuss specific responses that can immediately begin to address the economic disenfranchisement and the social disconnect of many 17- to 30-year-olds.
Holistic Emergency Alternative Response Team shows how a community can work well together
I am eager to see the Cambridge we can build together – a Cambridge that is better and stronger for all of us, that centers our most affected community members and that listens deeply to their voices. The Heart program is the affirmation of life and community that we are building together.
Students at the Tobin VLUS schools would benefit with the rest of us from keeping stately oak trees
This tree debate has been framed in the false binary terms that so many political debates are these days, pitting the public benefits of a modern new school and park complex against the environmental benefits of preserving healthy, mature trees.
This city is on moral life support, with weakness that leaves children unequal access to their goals
We are a world-class city with access to world-class and innovative ideas, but ideas are not action and we do not leverage success for our most vulnerable citizens.
There’s wide support for Baldwin Neighborhood replacing the Agassiz name, and no need to delay
The argument for a name change in this day and age far outweighs the argument of those who would avoid it. Over time names change, and often for good reason. This will prove to be a fine example of such evolution.
Olympians are swimming upstream against bias toward Black hair, and so are the rest of us daily
The criminalization of Black hair starts early, and sadly the sports arena is no exception.
Agassiz resident wants more renaming options appearing on a ranked-choice November ballot
There’s widespread agreement here in the Agassiz neighborhood that we should review its name, but why should our neighborhood and school be identified the same – after Maria Baldwin – and become the only neighborhood to have only a school’s name?
Pause the attacks on a well-intentioned initiative and let councillors’ reparations process proceed
City councillors’ proposed reparations policy alone is not a panacea for slavery or the war on drugs, considering the limitations of municipal resources. But to enact change at scale, smaller steps must be taken first.
How a smart city makes dumb environmental choices
Cambridge is providing a textbook example of how a wealthy, progressive community can commit environmental suicide despite having Green Roof Zoning, a Tree Protection Ordinance and an Urban Forest Master Plan.
Throw some shade Cambridge’s way
It may be that one of the healthiest places you could live in Cambridge is filled with dead people, as Mount Auburn Cemetery’s roughly 5,000 trees provide the kind of canopy that is sorely lacking in most of the city.
