
New transit arrives in Somerville, met with a mixed bag of emotions
The Dig - Greater Boston's Alternative News Source
Written by SHIRA LAUCHAROEN Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS
New transit arrives in Somerville, met with a mixed bag of emotions
Written by SHIRA LAUCHAROEN Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS
Elders came together with anti displacement organizers to defend an affordable housing proposal
Written by SAUL TANNENBAUM Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed
When Cambridge city staff decided to use the city’s zoning code to incentivize the creation of affordable housing, they faced a choice. They could, like generations of planners before them, trace old zoning and neighborhood boundaries, but those boundaries ... read more
Written by Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed
Cambridge is embroiled in a heated debate over the 100% Affordable Housing Overlay (AHO)—a city-wide up-zoning plan to allow large housing developments citywide, four stories (45’) tall in all residential areas and seven stories (80’) tall on major corridors.
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Written by JASON PRAMAS Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS
Big local corps quiet about huge profits to come from Repub tax scheme… except GE
An interesting WBUR article, “Largest Mass. Companies ... read more
Written by JASON PRAMAS Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS
Evolving the way the world moves … beyond Uber (and Lyft)
Written by DAN MCCARTHY Filed Under: Eats, LIFESTYLE
“We wanted to be a humble pizzeria that anyone—a college student to someone buying vintage [bottles of] Barolo—can afford.”
Written by DAN MCCARTHY Filed Under: Eats, LIFESTYLE
"I want people to come here for a special occasion, or twice a week if they want to.”