Official city travel steers away from United after controversies over removal, leggings (update)
The Cambridge order points to the dragging of a passenger off a plane as a potential hate crime and refers also to an earlier incident, when three girls were barred from flying because they were wearing form-fitting leggings as pants.
A mayoral email account goes on unread for a year, affecting pretty much no one (update)
Since Mayor E. Denise Simmons took office last year, 768 megabytes of email in 6,162 items was sent to [email protected], but nobody was reading it. It just collected unread.
School Committee members ID priorities, with world language still a complication
School Committee members listed their priorities in round robin-style Thursday, immediately after a public hearing. The topics were varied but often focused on providing stronger staff supports to students in and out of the classroom.
Trump ‘defiance’ among five big themes heard at first ‘State of the City’ address
An affirmation of liberal principles and economic safety underlay much of the the first-ever State of the City address, held Wednesday in a Sullivan Chamber at City Hall buzzing with the feel of a reunion of politicians, activists and other municipal movers and shakers.
Mayor decided on ‘better use for her time’ than Trump inaugural, stayed for march
Mayor E. Denise Simmons, who spent more than a week on the fence about attending Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration ceremony in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 20, said Tuesday that she attended a National League of Cities open house event instead.
Council quietly schedules goal-setting event, first for ‘critical work’ in six years
The City Council has quietly scheduled an off-site meeting to set “City Council Goals” for the upcoming term. The meeting does not appear on the council’s online hearing schedule or city calendar and isn’t posted on the council bulletin board in City Hall.
Still no call on mayor attending inaugural, but office says her constituents split on idea
Already in the nation’s Capitol for an annual U.S. Conference of Mayors gathering, Mayor E. Denise Simmons reportedly still has not decided whether she will attend Friday’s presidential inauguration of Donald Trump.
Free time? Mayor must have better reason to consider attending Trump inauguration
How odd that America’s first black, openly lesbian mayor – from one of the country’s most progressive cities – would consider attending Trump’s presidential inauguration. But the office of E. Denise Simmons confirmed this week that she is.
In town for conference, Cambridge mayor may attend Trump presidential inaugural
Simmons is an unlikely attendee for the inauguration of Trump as president, after a national campaign and transition that embraced, and was embraced by, white supremacists and anti-gay activists.
In recapping ‘incredible’ response to fire, city officials also begin looking forward
Fundraising for fire victims was nearing $1 million when taking into account all sources of donations, city officials said Monday as they began looking beyond a Dec. 3 blaze to rebuilding, and to responding to future emergencies.
