My vote does not automatically betoken disaster. The Cambridge election yesterday bears that out — somewhat. Why, Henrietta Davis, my No. 3 vote for city council, was re-elected, and Marjorie Decker, my No. 6 vote, and so on … In fact, five of my nin …

Cambridge isn’t going to be getting rent control anytime soon. Whether it’s needed is a little less certain. The city, like the rest of Massachusetts, has been without rent control since 1994, but activists have put it on the Nov. 4 ballot as a home-ru …