Attend meetings about a digital equity timeline, city budget, 2072 Massachusetts Ave. building
Public meetings this week look at a digital equity timeline, outdoor dining and Alewife traffic congestion; the next fiscal year’s budget, department by department; Covid vaccinations for kids and an Eversource brochure backlash; and affordable apartments proposed for 2072 Massachusetts Ave.
After taking back broadband study, city manager says he’d blame councillors for the repercussions
Councillors were left threatening another negative budget vote to express frustration over a municipal broadband feasibility study denied by the city manager for years – only for the city manager to tell councillors that it was a “game” they were playing with the jobs of city staff.
Call for broadband ‘options’ by the city manager is really a failure to honor repeated commitments
Upgrade Cambridge must again ask city councillors to vote their disapproval of the Information Technology budget and take whatever other steps they deem necessary to hold the manager to his own stated commitment to a municipal broadband feasibility study.
City broadband: An idea whose time has passed
The idea of a municipally owned system would have possibly been a good idea 20-plus years ago, but those days are over.
Digital equity report arrives, hailing competition and downplaying study of municipal broadband (updated)
The city released its long-awaited, 279-page digital equity study Tuesday, publicizing it with nine recommended strategies – including as No. 7 to “develop a strategy that explores municipal and other options for increasing broadband competition” – and an emphasis on existing market solutions.
Attend meetings on lower majorities for zoning, pool repair, MCAS tests and ice cream from a lab
Public meetings this week look at passing zoning more easily, and a Green New Deal; opting out of the MCAS test and a vocational education coalition; the Volpe redevelopment in Kendall Square; “missing middle” zoning; a Sub Zero Nitrogen Ice Cream in Cambridgeport; and much more.
With faculty coming from closing Becker College, Lesley University moves into video game design
Lesley University is adding an interactive media program to its College of Art and Design starting in the fall, to be led by six faculty from the closing Becker College, Lesley announced Tuesday.
After allegations that threatened reputation, comedian points out trolls in the community
Allegations against comic Dana Jay Bein last spring might have done serious damage to his reputation if not for one thing: He was part of a live Zoom comedy show at the same time he was supposedly gaslighting a woman into a fake rendezvous and texting her toxic messages.
In overcoming obstacles of vaccination signups, parent volunteers were teachers’ secret weapon
At The Maria L. Baldwin School in the Agassiz neighborhood, the burden of educators struggling to find vaccination appointments online was lifted by an initiative led by parents Amanda Steenhuis, Nina Farouk and Angela Wong.
Attend meetings on easing way for businesses, real estate transfer fee, two new eateries, more
Public meetings this week look at surveillance technology, tear gas and why the Planning Board doesn’t like proposed green roofs zoning; bao coming to Central Square and felafel to Porter Square; an overhaul of what and where businesses can be; and enacting a real estate transfer fee.
