Cambridge doesn’t need just more arts culture; We need a counterculture that challenges as well
While BioMed builds its jewel box and walled garden, who’s making sure our cultural ecology also has rocks to hurl and mud to squish between our toes?
Neighborhood group conversation started well, but so far doesn’t answer questions or conflicts
A City Council committee hearing about neighborhood groups – their successes and challenges and how the city can better support them – was great, but not all groups attended. And there is still work to be done at making all feel welcome at neighborhood meetings and City Council meetings.
One lesson of Covid-19: Experts in health care should shape policies determining well-being
The coronavirus has shown that medicine must reconsider its at-times misplaced boundaries. Our responsibility does not start when a patient enters the hospital, or end with their departure.
Our ‘inapposite’ Law Department
The loss Cambridge had in court last week, which means paying $3.7 million for the Vail Court land-taking near Central Square even as the payee sues to get the property back, is part of a pattern for our Law Department.
Cambridge has a baguette subscription service, but there’s un petit problème with its approach
Arguing for the creation of a baked goods subscription service – specifically of baguettes – brought advice from a savvy reader that there already is one, and from Cambridge’s own Iggy’s Bread. It just isn’t one everyone can use.
Two deaths of two bicyclists at two intersections, one reconfigured fully, the other to widen by foot
After the death of Amanda Phillips, the city announced plans to reconstruct an Inman Square intersection with such speed that it sparked a lawsuit. Since the death of Jamesia Dottin, the city didn’t announce much of anything until a plan for an eight-story building.
Where’s our new baguette subscription service? Local bakeries, time to fulfill this urgent knead
Subscription services are thriving and restaurants are selling pantry items and doing more delivery. What’s needed is an intersection of the two – and my very specific vote would be for a baguette subscription service.
Homophobic slur during meeting of Democrats shows why Goverman, Roosevelt should resign
A resolution about homophobic attacks during the past primary season was defeated Wednesday in a dispiriting process, with participants forced to endure instances of both veiled and overt homophobia mirroring the very criticisms made in the text.
Many have contributed money to Cambridge Day; Here’s what their generosity has made possible
We promised to use contributors’ money to maintain, expand and improve Cambridge Day – and though it’s still a work in progress, it’s only in progress because of those contributions.
The best of Cambridge in 2020
If the obvious worst thing about this year was the coronavirus, the best thing is just as apparent: Our response to the pandemic as a city and as individuals.
