Cambridge Health Alliance has hired a political consultant with expertise in getting out the vote to try to increase Covid-19 vaccination rates. The consultant, Mac D’Alessandro, and his company, Campaign Industries, will apply lessons from elections to “Get Out The Vax.”

A mostly barefaced City Council ushered in the next stage of a Covid response Monday, the first day in almost two years that Cambridge does not require masks in any setting.

Throughout Cambridge’s history, women have led the charge in creating change, progress and growth for the city. Their contributions have inspired individuals and moved Cambridge forward.

Imagine a company you’ve worked at for years suddenly fires you, and it has nothing to do with your performance. The company explains that you’ve gained weight and they don’t want you on staff. You feel ashamed, powerless. In Massachusetts, this is completely legal.

The concerns are real: Our businesses are struggling to survive. But the case for advocating for both small businesses and protected bicycle lanes is strong. 

While many African American women today wear their hair in afros, cornrows, locks, braids, Senegalese twists, wraps, or bald, our hair continues to be a battlefield in this country’s politics of hair and beauty aesthetics.

Five protesters were arrested Monday after scaling a Raytheon BBN Technologies facility in the Cambridge Highlands, saying they hoped to call attention to the company’s weapons sales and “record of human rights violations.”

In preserving some almost-lost pieces of Necco history, the founder of the Candy Wrapper Museum became convinced it should be shared with the world in a book – a piece of New England’s confectionery legacy composed of Necco candy wrappers and ephemera.

We and other civic organizations and individuals warned Harvard and other venues that giving Putin a platform through the arts made the venues complicit in supporting war crimes, but our pleas did not succeed in eliciting a change.

The Irish community’s first U.S. celebrations honoring St. Patrick were described in Cambridge papers as an excuse for drunkenness, violence and other unsavory behavior. It wasn’t long before the events were filled instead with breakfasts, lectures and concerts – all very publicly devoid of alcohol and on the path to mainstream acceptance.