

Motion over redirecting $4.1M in police funding causes council to explode in anger, accusations
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Written by MARC LEVY Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS
Motion over redirecting $4.1M in police funding causes council to explode in anger, accusations
Written by JASON PRAMAS Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COVID, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Uncategorized
Should violence replace political debate, democracy could end
Written by IRENE MONROE Filed Under: COLUMNS, Editorial, NEWS+OPINIONS
The first debate, for me, didn’t demonstrate a compelling reason to replace Markey—to swap an older straight white male for a younger one.
Written by JASON PRAMAS Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS
A five-hour city council hearing can really get you thinking.
As I sat watching the latest chapter in the East Cambridge courthouse saga unfold at city hall on ... read more
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 SUZANNE PRESTON BLIER 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 GARY ZABEL Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed
Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts
Written by ERIC BOEKER Filed Under: Comics
Written by MIKE CANN Filed Under: Blunt Truth, COLUMNS
Grand old party pooper