As Americans, we should focus on creating this nation as a solid rock that rests on a multicultural and democratic foundation. This way, we’d recognize marginalized groups, especially our Native American brothers’ and sisters’ ongoing struggle every day, particularly on Thanksgiving.

If Cambridge hosts the next Kyle Rittenhouse, police and the city should be inviting the “help” of passersby in law enforcement matters only with open eyes and a clear policy.

The high rate of vehicle-on-bicycle crashes is extremely concerning, and it seems inevitable that more serious injury or deaths will occur if this pattern continues.

To swing the pendulum on our problems, we must discover our greatest moral selves and be undeterred to create institutions through private, public and university financial commitments that will move us closer to the opportunity and equity we espouse.

That poor proverbial frog boiling slowly to death in gently heating water could be the new city mascot. For Cambridge, it’s not a stovetop that’s doing the damage, it’s unrestrained development, project by project, choking the life out of neighborhoods and displacing longtime residents.

Long-awaited justice for R. Kelly’s survivors finally came last month when a federal jury found him guilty of racketeering and sex trafficking. For nearly 30 years, underage black girls and their families have tried to bring Kelly to justice. What took so long?

The city’s Neighborhood Conservation District ordinance doesn’t recognize the essential role change has played in Cambridge’s history, which is ironic: The ordinance’s goal is to interfere with change, but change is the very thing that created the built environment the ordinance seeks to preserve.

The Cambridge Monopoly game includes Kendall Square, Longfellow House, even City Hall and the Charles River as properties up for grabs. For those fighting out-of-control development it looks like a nightmare with a pair of dice.

Folks, you really need to hear this: Things are not good. The restaurant industry is in shambles, severely understaffed and doing a fraction of its typical sales. That’s why the federal government’s Restaurant Relief Fund needs to be refunded – and go to more than 30 percent of eligible businesses.

With all the human suffering in the world and the clearcutting of old-growth forests in the Amazon and Indonesia, why waste tears on a trio of old trees?