Memorial Drive is a community asset. It shows what happens when people work together to listen to resident concerns, consider solutions and improve policies for everyone.

A “Pit-A-Palooza” event this weekend is supposed to honor the people organizers call “Pit Rats,” but I just can’t attend an event run by people that have helped kill everything that made Cambridge special.

Safety concerns from federal inspectors caused the MBTA to announce on Friday that weekday subway service on the red, orange and blue Lines would be cut dramatically, and run on a weekend schedule. But the MBTA story is worse than that.

In late February, Cantabrigians watched in horror as the Russians invaded Ukraine. But what can ordinary people do beyond sending donations to humanitarian organizations and writing to political leaders? The Cambridge Plant & Garden Club planted sunflowers, which the Ukrainian national flower.

We need municipalities and other roadway owners to do their part by making room for bus priority lanes and improved bus stops. That means hard conversations about how to allocate limited street space – conversations that are already happening in Cambridge, but that have been focused largely on space for bikes and street parking.

It stands to reason that a return to normalcy would make some people skittish, but we can’t continue to live in fear of this virus. The time to move beyond Covid has come.

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.