Also on the Menu this week: Somerville’s Mobile Farmers Market returns next week, Anna’s Taqueria has shrimp and Ten One Tea House has a big to-go box.
Get a $5 burger at Cambridge Common like it’s 1996 again
Cambridge has surpassed its 1950s population peak, with housing, wealth and race effects
The Human Rights Commission heard findings on age and sex; households and families; race and ethnicity; immigration; income and poverty.
Somerville meetings, March 30-April 6: Affordable homes overlay zoning … and doughnuts
Take part in meetings on 90 Washington and new school plans, affordable homes overlay zoning and hours a Winter Hill Dunkin’.
Cambridge meetings, March 30-April 6: The city is using AI and talking data centers and turning 400
Take part in meetings on changes to community benefits, tech, events and tourism issues and the future of city-owned properties.
They talk about politeness when they mean compliance
The idea of politeness as “professionalism” is a societal delusion, and too frequently the enforcing of a gracious response to malicious policy.
Protect Act passes in state House of Representatives ahead of weekend Trump protests
An Act Protecting Access to Justice comes “in response to the ongoing fascist ICE crackdown,” state representative Mike Connolly said.
Mount Auburn Cemetery opens its gates at 6 a.m. for early morning strolls and bird-watching
Mount Auburn Cemetery brings back its Early-Bird Hours starting Wednesday and reopens its Washington Tower for the season.
A moment of silence honors Olympian Reavis, who set records at Somerville High and nationally
Olympian Phil Reavis was mourned Thursday in Somerville, where he lived and is honored as the namesake of a high school athletic field.
Plan for affordable homes on Porter Street is a capstone as Johnston retires from CHA
Amid speeches, work got done, including moves toward developing land at 16-28 Porter St., Wellington-Harrington, near the Somerville city line.
In Brownsberger-Lander race for senate, incumbent touts governor’s endorsement
The reelection campaign of state senator Will Brownsberger was endorsed Thursday by governor Maura Healey as “crucial” to state initiatives.