The Cambridge Monopoly game includes Kendall Square, Longfellow House, even City Hall and the Charles River as properties up for grabs. For those fighting out-of-control development it looks like a nightmare with a pair of dice.

After my bike commute this morning I was left wondering if I needed to die before the city does something about the traffic circle at New Street and Concord Avenue in front of Sozio Appliances.

Early education is a wonderful thing, and it’s time that Cambridge provides this for every child and the parents – and women in particular – who have made the difficult decision to step back from their careers to care for their children during the pandemic.

The mental and physical tolls of Covid have been well documented and. As days get shorter, the weather colder and the delta variant curbs our activities and social lives, taking steps to support our health and wellness becomes essential.

For the past two months, the city has reported that 75 percent of residents have gotten at least one shot of vaccine against Covid-19. Meanwhile, the rate of positive cases is increasing.

Our city, and the world, has transformed since 1940. Our charter needs an update, and residents are urged to vote “yes” on all three questions.

Folks, you really need to hear this: Things are not good. The restaurant industry is in shambles, severely understaffed and doing a fraction of its typical sales. That’s why the federal government’s Restaurant Relief Fund needs to be refunded – and go to more than 30 percent of eligible businesses.

This petition will change zoning for single- and two-family homes without escalating housing costs or property values or destroying the city’s rich array of sustainable historic housing, adding units while preventing the tearing down of existing stock to build larger, more expensive housing.

Before the CPA approves a request for $200,000 for repairs to a section of retaining wall that may have been caused by construction work by a business owner, a thorough evaluation of the cause of the collapse should be completed.

With all the human suffering in the world and the clearcutting of old-growth forests in the Amazon and Indonesia, why waste tears on a trio of old trees?