There are ways to improve a proposal from Alexandria Real Estate and respond to important needs of the city East Cambridge and Kendall Square.
Debate over multifamily housing zoning demands we ask what is middle class in Cambridge
In considering amendments to zoning, officials should evaluate impacts on displacement and opportunities for existing middle-class residents to secure stable housing.
You should care more about elevators
As we replace, renovate and rebuild Massachusetts' aging housing stock, changing the way we think about elevators is a big step in that direction.
Recount of race should reassure everyone about election processes, state senator says with thanks
The publicly witnessed recount altered previous final counts by only one vote. This is reassuring not just considering this race, but in general.
Politicians aren’t your friends
Politicians are real people who can cry and laugh and certainly try to do both. Feel free to be moved but remember that they have no idea you're watching.
How Somerville got to zero bicyclist or pedestrian deaths for four years, and how to keep it going
While not having residents and visitors mowed down by motorists should be a baseline expectation, our success is in contrast with the towns around us with the same goal.
A response for renters after 100 years of humiliation
Yes, we need rent control. Not because it will work, but because it won’t. Economists predict it will crash property values. That’s not my problem.
State representative Mike Connolly responds to campaign claims by challenger in 26th Middlesex District
On the eve of the Democratic primary, I want to correct the record about my work in the House of Representatives and in our Cambridge and Somerville community.
Hit the federal government where it hurts: Let’s withhold taxes
Not transmitting income tax monies to the federal government is a federal offense. I would support taking that risk.
Amateurs’ ideas for the Reid Overpass are still better than the latest ideas from the state
A pedestrian-bike roundabout bridge makes sense, or a slimmed-down roundabout featuring a genuinely novel approach to fixing the 47 bus route.