With all due respect, a City Council query into the Law Department and its reported surge in requests for public records didn’t go far enough to root out the problem.

Economic choices leave traces. Consumers are becoming increasingly thoughtful about how we spend our dollars – but what about how we save them?

Though some sectors and groups of businesses are beginning to find their footing again post-pandemic, it’s vital for municipal government and organizations such as Cambridge Local First to help smaller companies – especially those in the hospitality space, and women and economically disadvantaged owners.

While there is no shortage of suggestions regarding how to address a teachers’ mental health crisis, suggestions are not enough – action needs to be taken. Failing to do so will have devastating effects for our kids.

Converting the needed portion of drivers from gas to electric within less than eight years is unlikely to happen unless more people are willing to think outside the box – the metal boxes called cars – and to another “e-” option with great potential to reduce emissions, congestion and traffic deaths: the e-bike.

How should we allocate space on our streets in a way that allows the most people to get around safely and conveniently, while meeting our critical climate goals? That’s the question at the heart of the city’s ongoing conversation about how best to redesign Massachusetts Avenue through the Porter Square area.

Local business owners are increasingly concerned that a growing “dark store” presence in Cambridge and the wider Boston area may push out local retailers – the newest wave of the gentrification of small businesses.

The concerns are real: Our businesses are struggling to survive. But the case for advocating for both small businesses and protected bicycle lanes is strong. 

Gannett – the 900-pound gorilla of multinationals in the local news space – announced last week that it was eliminating many of its Massachusetts news properties and merging others including the Somerville Journal with the Medford Transcript. It’s doubtlessly a last, brief flash in the proverbial pan before elimination by a profit-focused corporate parent.

We and other civic organizations and individuals warned Harvard and other venues that giving Putin a platform through the arts made the venues complicit in supporting war crimes, but our pleas did not succeed in eliciting a change.