Future of Public Safety task force to start work this month with 14 members led by councillors
Thursday, January 7, 2021
The City Manager’s Task Force to Examine the Future of Public Safety in Cambridge was appointed Thursday by City Manager Louis A. DePasquale.
Serious crime was up overall in 2020, data shows, but from all-time lows; one killing, gunfire down
Tuesday, January 5, 2021
Preliminary crime numbers for the past year became available Monday, showing an overall increase in incidents of 8 percent over 2019, with violent crimes down but property crimes up – tempered by the fact that 2019 saw the lowest rate of crime in the city in more than 60 years.
Holidays arrive with $356,500 in funding for arts, other giving, including a secret Santa for seniors
Thursday, December 24, 2020
Though some Cambridge arts organizations enter the holidays with $15 billion in Save Our Stages disaster recovery upended by the White House as part of a larger political war, there are still presents being delivered in a year defined by doors locked against the spread of coronavirus.