Pro-Palestine activists chipped away at President Joe Biden’s landslide victory in the state’s Democratic primary on Super Tuesday, while Henrietta Davis and Justin Klekota were among State Democratic Committee winners with comfortable margins in Cambridge and Somerville.
Hornby’s campaign focuses on issues that are hot-button topics in Somerville, including climate change policy, transportation, economic justice and education.
City councillors will explore whether they should eliminate “foreign policy resolutions” from their scope of responsibilities or find a better process for handling them.
Cambridge is getting a Sustainability Office that will be led by a chief climate officer – a new role – who will report directly to City Manager Yi-An Huang.
Requests by Cambridge’s City Council have gone weeks, months or years before a formal response from previous city managers. An “Awaiting Report Status Update” changes that dynamic.
An inaugural event for Somerville brought vows to follow data and science and stay unshaken by national political upheavals, as well a use of that data to show the improvements possible under local government.
There will be no recount for a School Committee seat in Cambridge, as candidate Andrew King opted to let a 5 p.m. Wednesday deadline pass without a challenge.
This year’s School Committee election remains basically a coin flip between Andrew King and Richard Harding. If King requests a recount, a change in a single ballot could swing the election in his favor. Or maybe not.
The advantage held by Andrew King on Nov. 9 was razor-thin – only three ballots ahead of Richard Harding – but Harding ended a Friday count eight votes ahead.