Rep. Owens announces June office hours
State Rep. Steve Owens, a Democrat in the 29th Middlesex District made up of parts of Cambridge and Watertown, has upcoming office hours.
City’s Law Department deserves more oversight when it comes to public records law compliance
With all due respect, a City Council query into the Law Department and its reported surge in requests for public records didn’t go far enough to root out the problem.
City-issued trash carts arriving through June resist rats, spare workers and decrease waste
After the city delivers free, standardized, trash carts next month to more than 32,000 households, only those city-issued carts will be emptied by the Department of Public Works’ orange trash trucks making weekly rounds.
Middlesex County is again high risk for Covid; schools, Public Health and Somerville take note
With Covid-19 cases continuing to rise and the county now in the high-transmission category, the Cambridge Public Health Department is not alone in urging indoor masking more forcefully.
Attend meetings on trash bins, Alewife zoning, budgeting and meeting city manager candidates
Public meetings this week look at trash bins and Alewife development (and IQHQ’s plans there), budgeting for the next fiscal year, infrastructure for The Port and meeting candidates to become the next city manager.
Proakis bids to become Watertown city manager after leading work of development in Somerville
Watertown is searching for its next city manager, and one of three finalists for the job is George Proakis, executive director of strategic planning and community development for Somerville.
Attend meetings on delaying Porter bike lanes, ‘hostile architecture’ and a North Charles clinic
Public meetings this week look at pausing Porter Square bicycle lanes for removal of a concrete median and overhead trolley wires, removing “hostile architecture,” jobs for a Cambridge Green New Deal, a school sexual misconduct policy and zoning face-off over the North Charles drug therapy clinic.
If you’re among the few sticking with masks, city’s public health department is on your side
Cambridge public health officials recommend that people “wear a mask when indoors outside your own home, including on public transportation” – just as before the city eliminated the indoor masking requirement in March and before a judge struck down the federal mask mandate on public transportation Monday and the MBTA followed suit.
Mayor and city manager to give State of the City address
Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui and City Manager Louis A. DePasquale will give remarks at 6 p.m. April 27 on the State of the City, addressing accomplishments and ongoing work in the more than two years since the start of the Covid pandemic.
Federal Covid aid may go to guaranteed income; Free student transit, Fair Share bill also favored
Orders that could change life significantly for Cambridge’s lower-income residents were approved Monday by city councillors, including a call to put some of the $65 million in federal Covid aid the city is getting into a guaranteed-income program and one that would give all high school students free CharlieCards for bus and subway rides.
