Every four years there is a call to abolish the U.S. electoral college. In Cambridge, elections incite calls to end proportional representation — our rare form of voting in which candidates are ranked instead of just chosen or rejected. Let’s not.

Sympathies flow first one way, then the other in the case of condominiums proposed to wrap around St. James’s Episcopal Church in Porter Square, mainly depending on the last people who speak on the matter. But the project should go forward.

December was the last month at the Maria L. Baldwin School for Design Hive, the fashion and crafts fair run by Cambridge resident and business owner Valerie Fox. This is bad for Cambridge, its schools and its students.

Cambridge comes out of Election Day knowing very little for certain, and even as names of candidates were announced the unsettled nature of the wins inspired few cheers as accompaniment. Today at 9 a.m., the Election Commission will end the uncertainty.

This will be the last issue of Cambridge Day, at least for a while. It was an awfully short run — the newspaper started just Oct. 31 — but Cambridge Day was, more or less, an experiment that its small staff hoped would be successful and ran as though i …

Chris Zappala The MBTA broadcasts information to T platforms about the proximity of approaching trains. It tells people at Porter Square, for instance, that a southbound train has left Alewife, or that a northbound train has left Kendall. What’s diffic …

In deciding whether bricks have a place on our sidewalks, the answer must be a firm, enduring: Keep the bricks. This means constant maintenance of sidewalks — expensive and tedious tasks that fiscally minded cities would gladly avoid in favor of smooth …

Raul It is bewildering. President Bush stood before hundreds of soldiers on Veterans Day and told them, and the world, that opponents of the Iraq war must remember that “intelligence agencies from around the world agreed with our assessment of Saddam H …

The Jules G. Chisholm Visitor Information Booth in Harvard Square. The booth is staffed by volunteers and is intended to be open for about eight hours a day. (Photo: Lawrence E. Miller) There’s dispute over whether Cambridge is drawing the yearly 2 mil …

Congratulations to the candidates who ran in this election — particularly, of course, to the winners, but everyone who ran deserves thanks. In part, it’s just nice to see a little action, especially with such a dispirited, unmotivated electorate. Among …