After a 30-month hiatus and with little notice or explanation, the state has put on the table a changed plan to reconstruct Memorial Drive to improve bike and pedestrian paths and restore landscaping along the Charles River.

Public meetings this week look at preparing the school district budget process, Envision Cambridge and single-family zoning, landlord and leasing issues at the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority’s Foundry building and “nonprofit row,” and more.

The Cambridge Housing Authority has begun requiring employees who work in person to test themselves for coronavirus just before they start work, and it may have paid big dividends in preventing transmission of the virus. The requirement relies on employer-provided rapid antigen tests.

Cambridge city workers don’t have to get vaccinated against Covid-19 to keep their jobs, but the city will make it easier for them to get a shot if they want one. The city plans three vaccination clinics specifically for Cambridge employees and their families this week.

Public meetings this week look at bike lanes and Alewife offices and labs; Lamplighter Brewing and the return of the Indian restaurant Tanjore; how universal pre-kindergarten is being developed by the city and school district; and more.

The new City Council term is bringing some shifts in committee assignments, while the Planning Board and Board of Zoning Appeal similarly prepared last week for the coming year of work. One body of appointed officials stayed the course; the other made big changes in leadership.

About 72 percent of fully vaccinated Cambridge residents 65 and older have received a third shot, according figures reported by the city for the first time Thursday, as 391 new cases of Covid were reported. The cases strained hospitals, nursing homes and even a library branch that will be closed for nearly a week.

Public meetings this week look at swearing-in the new City Council and School Committee; ending single-family zoning, building an 100 percent affordable-housing mixed-use project on New Street; tearing down the Garage mall; replacing a Harvard Street apartment building destroyed by a 2020 fire; and more.

Almost all staff who care for vulnerable residents at Cambridge’s three nursing homes are fully vaccinated against coronavirus, but less than one-third of eligible employees have received a booster shot in two facilities.

In the pandemic’s second year, is it good that there are “worsts” largely unrelated to it? They include a bike and bus lane breakdown, some bad government and a company that bought up a neighborhood and probably has more of a plan for it than city officials do.