Attend meetings in Somerville from Oct. 3-10: Plans for 90 Washington and safer bike lanes
Attend meetings on a new public safety building, protected bike lanes on Holland Street, high school policing, land being turned over by Boynton Yards and more.
Mayor celebrates Eid al-Fitr at the White House, invited with other prominent Muslim Americans
It’s almost unheard of that Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui misses a City Council meeting, but on Monday she had a very good excuse: She was at the White House to celebrate the Eid holiday with President Joe Biden.
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.
Residents see second proposal for Walden Square with assurances for better security, maintenance
A revamped proposal for adding affordable apartments to North Cambridge’s Walden Square was greeted as better than the original from last year, but a litany of complaints from current tenants made the sense of progress hard to gauge.
Mayors’ letter about Walden Square problems puts Winn development on notice with funder (corrected)
With a giant housing project in the works that will need money from the city’s Affordable Housing Trust, the Winn company had a response ready Thursday for an “unusual” letter of criticism filed by the mayor and vice mayor with the Trust’s board.
CCTV’s ‘Who Knows Cambridge?’ comes back with contestants who really know their stuff
The city trivia game show “Who Knows Cambridge?” was brought back Wednesday by Cambridge Community Television for an open-air Starlight Square edition, this time with Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui as host.
Similar proposals to change Cambridge policing are greeted by councillors on a grim anniversary
On the one-year anniversary of the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, two proposals to change the nature of public safety were embraced Monday by Cambridge’s City Council.
Cambridge will test guaranteed income payments with 120 city households led by single caretakers
An initiative will offer $500 no-strings-attached monthly payments via debit card to 120 eligible single caretaker households over an 18-month period beginning in August, Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui announced Thursday. Participants in the Guaranteed Income Pilot will be chosen by lottery.
‘No confidence’ voted for school district officials; Educators want say in hiring next superintendent
A vote among 1,000 educators resulted in 84 percent declaring no confidence in the school district’s elected and appointed leaders, and 93 percent called for a new, “co-created, community-driven and anti-racist process” in selecting the next superintendent.
