Postal Service won’t let us ignore self-service
An Automated Postal Center stands unused in the Porter Square, Cambridge, post office Nov. 5, 2005. (Photo: Marc Levy) The U.S. Postal Service’s self-service kiosks, despite being in town for more than a year, still seem to require constant attendance …
Election isn’t only solution to city’s division
There will be no endorsements of candidates here. Cambridge Day is too new to be well enough informed on city topics and specific personalities to be a sound and credible guide to readers on whom to vote for in tomorrow’s elections. Certainly there’s v …
Cameras off or on, brevity is still a virtue
Dan Osterman No matter who wins tomorrow’s election, it would be good for them to remember one thing: brevity. Well, maybe two things, the second being mercy. Mercy, that is, for those attending or watching City Council meetings, which are recorded and …
Smokers disposed toward wrong freedoms
Chris Zappala Smoking, as the Marlboro man would tell you, is all about freedom — which means it’s all about an image of freedom. For the Marlboro man, that freedom is found in a wide-open prairie, usually just before sunset. For the fun-loving Newport …
Ask the unquestion to get a nonanswer
Dan Osterman Among the stock phrases littering the conversation of Massachusetts — including various uses of “all set” and the injunction to “Have a good one” — the most troublesome are the questions that are not questions: “How ya doin’?” or “How’s it …
An election endorsement not for a politician
While no one knows who’ll take or keep seats in the Nov. 8 election, there is already a clear No. 1 winner, and it’s the same guy who won the previous election, and the one before that: Robert Winters, the keeper of the Cambridge Civic Journal site on …
Streets offer rock ’n’ roll, rather than stereotype of road rage
Dan Osterman Sometimes the news doesn’t tell the whole story; what you read about hit-and-runs and other traffic incidents in Cambridge is disconcerting but incomplete. The cheery anarchy of our streets is almost always delightful, in fact. It’s more t …
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