Before city planners, business representatives and residents gather (virtually) Thursday to “introduce small improvements” to Harvard Square’s Palmer Street, here’s an idea from 2015: Use the alley for a weekly free speech for activists, iconoclasts, poets, comics and anyone else with ideas.

There were plenty of reasons 76 future entrepreneurs from China and Taiwan wrapped up their visit as part of Cambridge Youth Business with a dance — and plenty of reasons it was Cambridge youth who were dancing with them.

Our tourism experts tell us that 2 million people a year visit Cambridge. What for?

The Sheraton Commander was voted the top hotel in the 200-plus site chain in December, said Jennifer Auyer, director of sales and marketing for the hotel.