An assumption that anything built would be cost-neutral or revenue positive within 10 years is undermined by starting with social justice; there are no current plans for public engagement for a market survey; and the City Council’s work has been slowed to nothing by the manager’s obstruction. Cambridge is far from ready for a decision.

Tucked away in the wilds of Cambridge – near Alewife – lies what is essentially the local ninja training center. The building is due to be torn down to become lab space, though, and neither kung fu nor sword skills can hold off the bulldozers. A development moratorium might.

Public meetings this week look at bike lanes on Massachusetts Avenue; licensing for New Republik, a Barcelona Wine Bar and 286Broadway, a Housing Affordability petition, after-school program busing, an unarmed public safety program, Margaret Fuller House improvements and more.

While there are countless factors causing small businesses to close, local owners have identified a source of many of their problems: Amazon.

Campaigners for City Council should consider these ideas to address the root cause of our ever-continuing displacement; establish a kind of municipal broadband; create housing for city employees; and more.

Gen Zers’ fervor for ’80s and ’90s fashion helps determine what makes it onto the racks of secondhand clothing shops in Cambridge and Somerville, but not as a result of the latest issues of Teen Vogue or posts from fashion websites. It’s the video app TikTok driving much of the style.

Recent shootings in The Port neighborhood and the city’s response will be the topic of a Wednesday virtual meeting. Police are investigating two separate, nonfatal shootings Thursday and Friday and others that took place in the area.

There’s really no need to turn this mall experience into a social media event – it’s fun to simply drift through and feel delighted by the sights and technical wonders. But if you do indeed want to “pixel yourself,” the exhibit makes it easy.

Public meetings this week look at reparations through cannabis revenue, name changes to the Agassiz neighborhood and Central Square branch library, police surveillance technology that worries civil libertarians, aging elementary schools, tree tear-downs and much more.

With meetings by video conferencing no longer demanded by a pandemic, City Manager Louis A. DePasquale ordered city staff on Tuesday to not permit remote public comment if a meeting was otherwise in person – conflicting with council orders without explanation.