Street sweepings starting in April may be very different from years past, with tickets instead of tows for cars left where cleaners try to do their work – though staff resistance and human nature may undo a split vote Monday by city councillors looking to try the experiment.

The creation of city-owned Internet is being looked at by Somerville city councilors in a version that would go beyond recommendations by the city’s own task force.

A proposal for the city to find ways to street clean without towing cars was stopped Monday for at least a couple of weeks, as a city councillor urged its authors to ensure that the people most affected by the change get asked about it.

With a financial feasibility study of city-owned Internet underway, a network looking more realistic and a new city manager in place, the dynamic Monday at an officials’ roundtable was in some ways flopped from years past: City Manager Yi-An Huang seemed more enthusiastic about municipal broadband than some city councillors.

Neighbors of the impending years of construction at the Tobin School and Vassal Lane Upper School campus were upset to learn they hadn’t been invited to a groundbreaking ceremony now set for 2 p.m. Wednesday.

Amazon – the logistics expert the world has come to rely on for everything from groceries to furniture – abandoned an entire cart of packages meant for delivery to Forest Street in a Fernald Drive lobby on Wednesday. Amazon did not come back to redeliver them.

The 2072 Massachusetts Ave. project was fraught with violations of the state’s 40B guidelines, not only by the applicant, but by Cambridge. It’s an example of why we need an office of compliance to ensure all federal, state and city statutes, regulations and guidelines are followed strictly.

With meetings by video conferencing no longer demanded by a pandemic, City Manager Louis A. DePasquale ordered city staff on Tuesday to not permit remote public comment if a meeting was otherwise in person – conflicting with council orders without explanation.

Fees for small businesses reduced during the coronavirus crisis will continue through 2021, and officials plan additional fee waivers and to further streamline permitting processes.

Could the staff of Cambridge’s public libraries have been doing more in recent months? Should the main library have opened earlier? During a global pandemic, the city chose safety first.