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Cambridge meetings, June 15-22: Deciding businesses for Cambridge Street and North Mass. Ave.

by Marc Levy June 14, 2026

Take part in meetings on “active uses” along traffic corridors, surveys about school cultures and housing proposed for East Cambridge.

NEWS

Cambridge meetings, June 8-15: Two zoning laws that speed home construction are targeted for changes

by Marc Levy June 7, 2026

Take part in meetings on calls to alter residential zoning and how to explain school incidents to families, and a roundtable about boosting business start-ups.

NEWS

Translator Ken Kronenberg has disturbing things to say about America in 2026, and they’re from Germany in the 1930s

by Marc Levy June 1, 2026

Kronenberg is translating toxic German propaganda from the fascist era of eugenics, racism and slaughter as it seeps through U.S. political speech.

NEWS

Cambridge meetings, May 31-June 8: New homes, stopping the sewage and a gun buyback

by Marc Levy May 31, 2026

Take part in meetings on changes that can reshape Cambridge Street, 92 homes for Rindge Avenue and ending sewage outflow into public waters.

DID YOU KNOW

As America held down or kept out Asian immigrants, Harvard hired a Chinese professor in 1879

by Beth Folsom of History Cambridge May 18, 2026

The presence in Cambridge was a curiosity and a sign of Harvard’s increasing awareness of the place China was to occupy on the world stage.

OPINION

Where are consuls as immigrants get seized for deportation? Not where they should be.

by Martin G. Evans May 3, 2026

Why so little consular activity reported for thousands of people detained by ICE? It may be that the locations of consulates do not map the needs of the moment.

DID YOU KNOW

Guess who was left out of the speeches in 1905 celebrating Cambridge’s 275th anniversary

by Beth Folsom of History Cambridge April 27, 2026

“We cannot help but look forward with some anxiety to the future,” the president of Harvard said. “The Puritans no longer control Cambridge.”

BUSINESS

Cambridge city councillor McGovern urges a boycott of Citizens Bank over its support of ICE

by Marc Levy April 15, 2026

Pressure against Citizens Bank for its political investments has grown to include Cambridge city councillor Marc McGovern.

NEWS

Somerville is beefing up its Welcoming Community Ordinance against Trump policies

by Marc Levy April 11, 2026

A law that spells out Somerville’s resistance to federal oppression is being strengthened, including protections for First Amendment expression.

NEWS

Bill stopping ICE’s courthouse seizures wins support in Somerville as a Cambridge family mourns

by Marc Levy March 13, 2026

Somerville city councilors became the first in the state to vote in support of a bill on Beacon Hill that protects courtgoers from seizure by ICE.