Public meetings this week look at tree protection and cannabis delivery business laws, the Ragon Institute’s proposal to build near Kendall, MCAS standardized testing issues and much more.

There are many possibilities for a new name for the Agassiz neighborhood, and voting should follow our ranked-choice proportional representation ballot where your vote counts even if your top favorites are eliminated.

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.

Theodora Skeadas, director of the small-business advocacy group Cambridge Local First, announced her candidacy for City Council on Friday with a list of priorities that is topped by economic challenges, followed by housing and racial justice issues.

This coronavirus edition of movies to shelter with includes documentaries such as the 4.5-hour “City Hall” by Cambridge’s Frederick Wiseman and the stirring “Unapologetic,” but also Cronenbergian crime and horror.

Spontaneous street parties broke out Saturday in Cambridge, as well as around the country and internationally, upon official reports that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris had enough safe electoral college votes to take the White House in January.

Even now, with so much of this federal election outcome in doubt and reflective of a deeply split nation, it was a good election for a strange reason.

Democratic challenger for president Joe Biden and running mate Kamala Harris won 91.5 percent of the vote in Cambridge balloting Tuesday. A smaller electorate appeared to help President Donald Trump edge up ever so slightly among Cambridge voters from four years ago, to 6.5 percent.

This coronavirus edition of movies to shelter with highlights the Boston Jewish Film Festival, starting Wednesday – just after Election Day, which you can prep for with “John Lewis: Good Trouble” or “Totally Under Control” or avoid thinking about with “Zardoz,” “My Octopus Teacher” and more.

The effort to bring ranked-choice voting statewide was in comfortable territory Saturday with a rally in Porter Square, in a city that has been using it since 1940.