We call for a truly strong and sustainable green new deal for Cambridge. Proposed changes such as allowing carbon offsets or only partially measuring emissions cannot be allowed to water it down.

As an electric vehicle driver and Massachusetts resident concerned about the state’s future, I want to see a strong, clean transportation bill get through the Legislature.

As a coalition of organizations that work directly with the unhoused, we want more investment in housing and health care including using federal Covid aid funds to create easy to access housing with staffing. Our proposal lays out a pathway to ensure that these units are sustainable beyond the initial funding.

Female athletes themselves are the best advocates for equity in sports. Let’s support them! Ask them what they need. Progress is possible – just look at U.S. Soccer’s new, fairer contract policies, brought on by generations of talented young women demanding change.

Imagine Russian guns lined up along Arlington Heights, all of the Boston metropolitan area laid out before them. It is a scene of utmost desolation as the fight continues and we wait for outside help.

The new Glacken Field is fantastic, while the girls’ softball field of Danehy 3 – which some nickname “the frozen tundra” – is poorly thought out and bad for weather, drop-off and physically challenged family members. It’s still a man’s world, and our sports facilities are a place where young boys and girls learn that lesson very early.

No one, businesses or bikers, is going to win 100 percent on bike lanes. But as we debate them, we miss the larger picture: How do we create bold and groundbreaking initiatives to once and for all make it so using a car isn’t the first and only option for people?

An effective strategy for reducing greenhouse gases puts first priority on actual, verifiable emissions by current major polluters. Second priority should be local offsets. Global offsets have questionable value, and if allowed at all they should be only a small part of the total strategy, and permitted only after a rigorous process of evaluation of specific programs.

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

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.