With a financial feasibility study of city-owned Internet underway, a network looking more realistic and a new city manager in place, the dynamic Monday at an officials’ roundtable was in some ways flopped from years past: City Manager Yi-An Huang seemed more enthusiastic about municipal broadband than some city councillors.

Public meetings this week look at municipal broadband feasibility, the unhoused and substance issues, Alewife zoning recommendations and more.

Twenty years after we added biotechnology and graphic design as well as space and funding to CRLS technical education, it has been depleted and ignored again.

We have been hearing stories about how robotic cars will be coming soon, but even the industry’s engineers say a safe automated car will be impossible.

LabCentral Ignite’s Golden Ticket program awards companies founded by women and people of color to help “solve for underrepresentation” in biotech industries.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s festivals of comedy, hip-hop and Somergloom, plenty of theater and dance, and everything from a Moth Story Slam to a monarch butterfly release celebration.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s a Fresh Pond nature walk and Nature in the City Festival, “Cinema Strange” and free screenings of new Pixar classics, classes in augmented reality and a “Yart Sale” – a citywide yard sale for art.

A measure aimed at promoting electric vehicles by increasing access to charging stations, reducing the number of cars in the city by expanding rental services and increasing use of “micro-mobility” transportation such as bicycles, electric bicycles and scooters drew support Tuesday from the Planning Board – as much as members felt they could offer.

In some more tidbits from budget hearings, we learned that even the most understandable budget ever still has some work to do in terms of clarity; that despite surging public records requests, the Law Department needs no more technology to help; and that parking revenue and the raising of annual parking permit fees can be sensitive subjects.

In some tidbits from budget hearings, we learned that a municipal broadband hire is listed as being in the City Manager’s Office; our housing liaison could evolve into an Office of Housing Stability; police body cameras have wide support; and Cambridge ranks high on cybersecurity … according to the people responsible for Cambridge’s cybersecurity.