From vision to reality: Green Roofs in Cambridge
Join us in celebrating by making green roofs happen, especially in our neighborhoods where urban heat islands are most harmful to residents, and calling on developers to seize an opportunity to play a significant role in building the resilience we need to prepare for climate change.
Maybe Cambridge educators’ MCAS opposition will move state to put aside test that can harm
Citizens for Public Schools applauds the Cambridge teachers who have announced that, as a matter of conscience, they object to administering MCAS exams this pandemic school year and requested their administrators to allow them to not participate.
How to judge if the ‘21st Century Broadband’ RFP is a good faith effort to conduct a feasibility study
If the city truly wanted to conduct a municipal broadband feasibility study, it would not have taken the time to try and mislead the City Council and the public about a recommendation to do just exactly that.
Majority of Russell Apartments residents oppose design of building proposed for 2072 Mass. Ave.
More than two-thirds of Russell Apartments residents have signed a letter opposing the building proposed for next door. Those who haven’t signed are either afraid to speak out, or unable to communicate due to language barriers.
Loud and quiet voices on 2072 Mass. Ave.
Letter from Tom Burke: Neighbors deserve a chance to speak about the building at 2072 Massachusetts Ave., but should our voices be so much louder than those whose lives are most directly affected by the zoning board’s decision?
Let’s create opportunity and community through affordable housing, but 2072 project isn’t the way
Affordable housing is important, and I applaud the efforts to expand opportunities for working families. But it’s important to also consider the community where buildings are being built.
Call for broadband ‘options’ by the city manager is really a failure to honor repeated commitments
Upgrade Cambridge must again ask city councillors to vote their disapproval of the Information Technology budget and take whatever other steps they deem necessary to hold the manager to his own stated commitment to a municipal broadband feasibility study.
Our failure to reach herd immunity for Covid-19 is not an inevitability, but based in policy choice
States can, and should, encourage higher rates of vaccination with incentives. If necessary, states should also impose fines on people who refuse vaccination.
‘Massing’ on Massachusetts Avenue is one thing, but Walden Street does not give same permission
The developers of a nine-story, 102-foot, affordable housing building proposed for 2072 Massachusetts Ave. have defended its towering height by saying that it “masses” on the avenue, a thoroughfare that seems to give permission for its size. But it doesn’t “mass” only there.
BB&N’s use of synthetic turf fields is a violation of the school’s vow of ‘principled engagement’
Cambridge’s Buckingham, Browne & Nichols School surprised the Town of Watertown by saying its “open green space” was going to be synthetic turf. If you share our concerns and have any connection to BB&N, please make your voices heard.
