Public meetings this week look at setting City Council goals for the term and evaluating the city manager, housing and diversity hiring, and a Patriot’s Day celebration filled with history, treats, a horse riding in from Boston and a Humvee.

Public meetings this week look at West Broadway reconstruction, tenants and landlords rights, homelessness and a “dark skies ordinance,” a composting program, improvements for cyclists and a new Woody’s Liquors on the Medford border.

There’s one change around the state’s coming transformation of McGrath Highway into McGrath Boulevard that Somerville officials are trying to stop: removal of a pedestrian footbridge. A traffic signal change is also causing concern.

The Democracy Center meetinghouse for progressive organizations in Cambridge’s Harvard Square announced it would close for the foreseeable future, disrupting the work of groups such as the Heart unarmed response team.

Cambridge has $30 billion in real estate at stake from flooding, and atop that are the tens of thousands of jobs and residents within the vulnerable areas.

Shuttle buses used during February T shutdowns doubled the time it took to get from Alewife to Harvard during rush hour compared with the subway.

Public meetings this week look at a road diet plan and the impact of bike lanes; plans to redo Haskell Street in North Cambridge; hurdles to diversity, equity and inclusion; adapting homes to child care uses; and a housing agenda town hall.

Public meetings this week look at Core Empowerment, a cannabis seller seeking to open in Magoun Square where K-2 Beer & Wine once had the same plan, and the design of development proposals on Prospect and Spring hills.

Somerville school enrollment workers say cutbacks and changes at the Cambridge Health Alliance have made it more difficult for newcomers such as migrants and refugees to get help with subsidized insurance and into appointments.

The Cambridge School Committee dodged a self-imposed deadline to evaluate superintendent Victoria Greer, but paused long enough in passing a $268.3 million budget to call the president of the Cambridge Education Association a liar and slanderer.