Just give the Councillor who gets the most #1 votes right of first refusal of Mayor! Or run the Cambridge City Council ranked choice ballots with only 1 seat. 2 easy options that don't require voters to do anything differently. #CambMA

Move Amigos here. 2 classes K-8 + CPP = ~476 students. They're tight in their current building. Move Chinese Immersion, which has 200% demand in the lottery, from MLK to the ex-Amigos site. Double the CPP-5 classes = ~326 kids Freed up space in MLK meets their lottery demand of nearly 150% #CambMA

Trevor Story has more strikeouts this year than hits, home runs, and RBI combined. He has 7 walks in 155 at bats. He is hitting .200/.236/.284, has a 47 OPS+, and has been worth 0.0 WAR. In 304 innings he has zero defensive runs saved. He makes $25 million this year and does so again next year.

Fidelity, Vanguard and Schwab block SPLC donations. The Cambridge Community Foundation does not.

More specific details on why Marc Levy left @cambridgeday.com to start @csindie.bsky.social: www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/25/b...

I heard there was Gen X discourse afoot and I’m here to help scratchbomb.com/04/2026/deat...

NEW FEATURE: Two years ago, Bri Robinson attended a Celtics game as a fan, took photos, and DM'd them to every player on the team. Today, she's Neemias Queta's photographer and the person behind some of the Celtics' most emotional shots. Her story: www.celticsblog.com/celtics-feat...

Saw my first Waymo in the Greater Boston area today, driving down Brookline Street in Cambridge. Wasn't able to see if it was driverless #CambMA

To make building housing more palatable, Somerville allows new units near transit to be ineligible for street parking. Affordable units are always eligible; how much of an impact is this? Of 90 affordable units in the 450-unit Union Sq tower, only 7 have permits.

"The city's report notes especially strong growth in the number of kids riding their bikes in the city. In the decade since 2014, the number of children recorded in the city's biennial counts has more than tripled"

Marc Levy launches the Cambridge/Somerville Independent (csindie.com).

Eastern Edge Food Hall is now open in Cambridge's Kendall Square, 290 Main St. Featuring these restaurants: Bacaro Café & Bar Clover Everybody Gotta Eat Fuji Juicy J's Lone Star Taco Perillas Korean Kitchen Viêt Citron #CambMA www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/13/l...

For the first time in a few years, Cambridge #CambMA has posted Kindergarten lottery results. No data for CPP (preschool), although some of it can be estimated using rising PK numbers. www.cpsd.us/administrati...

Massachusetts electric and gas customers will get relief on their bills in February and March. But gas customers will pay that back in full and could be charged interest. https://www.wcvb.com/article/gov-maura-healey-announces-temporary-rate-cuts-amid-soaring-heating-bills/70083758 

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A heck of a chart: in every single one of the 10 major US cities that built the most housing between 2017 and 2023, rents for older, existing units fell—often by quite a bit.

In a 9pm Tuesday message to @cambridgeday.com contributors, editor Michael Fitzgerald announces that founder Marc Levy @mhlevy.bsky.social "has resigned effective immediately." I don't know any of the details nor the backstory.

For a couple of years now, I've been fascinated with what's happening at small liberal arts colleges, which are running out of money for reasons unrelated to Trump funding cuts. Businessweek let me go deep on the problems, and one college that's trying to blaze a new trail.

Pulling out and expanding on one point from this article: ward-based elections disenfranchise renters. Because renters move more: - They have a hard time running for office. - Ward councilor incentives are to focus on the stable voter population: homeowners. commonwealthbeacon.org/opinion/how-...

Cambridge #CambMA favorites Clover and Everybody Gotta Eat will open at Kendall Square's new Eastern Edge food hall in 2026, with Juicy Jay's, Perillas (Brighton), and Viet Citron (Somerville's Bow Market). The windows at 290 Main St have said "Future Food Hall" for years patch.com/massachusett...

Cambridge restaurants that were named Michelin Recommended: Giulia Moëca Oleana Pammy’s Urban Hearth #CambMA

Jahunger, Pagu, Sumiao Hunan Kitchen are the Cambridge winners of the Michelin Bib Gourmand. #CambMA

The city's unofficial results from today have David Weinstein elected to Cambridge School Committee rather than Eugenia Schraa Huh. Per the release, part of the cause of this was test ballots incorrectly being counted on Tuesday. www.cambridgema.gov/Departments/...

Per the city, the high number of alphabetical ballots were test ballots that were incorrectly included. Today's unofficial results don't show that pattern. www.cambridgema.gov/Departments/...

In the #CambMA municipal election, voters came out stronger for the School Committee vote than in prior years. Typically turnout is only 90-92% of the Cambridge City Council turnout. This year it was 98%. Did the SC vote end up influencing the CC result? A data anomaly suggests it's possible:

The full round-by-round breakdown is on the City website now: www.cambridgema.gov/Departments/...

Charter updates have been approved in #CambMA with 17,930 out of 23,745 votes – 75.5 percent of the votes.

Preliminary results of the #CambMA Cambridge School Committee election: Elizabeth Hudson Richard Harding Luisa de Paula Santos Caitlin Dube Arjun Jaikumar Eugenia Schraa Huh Incumbents David Weinstein, Jose Luis Rojas Villarreal, Caroline Hunter were defeated.

Preliminary results of the #CambMA Cambridge City Council election: Marc McGovern Sumbul Siddiqui Ayah Al-Zubi Burhan Azeem Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler E. Denise Simmons Tim Flaherty Catherine Zusy Patty Nolan (Incumbent Ayesha Wilson was defeated)

Analyzing the #cambma municipal election results in this thread... who will we see on the Cambridge City Council?

My predictions for tonight’s #CambMA Cambridge City Council election results: Siddiqui Nolan >quota Azeem McGovern Flaherty Zusy Simmons Sobrinho-Wheeler Wilson Al-Zubi Hanratty Hsu Bullister Sherin Melanson Rivkin Bisio

Remember the single most important think you can do is bring a friend to vote! Chris Cullen put together this great graph.

The reason the rich complain so much about state taxes is because they don't want to move! The whole fun in being rich is getting to do what you want regardless of cost. Most sensitive enough to the 4% marginal tax over $1M would have probably moved over the 5% income tax or 8.5% shortterm cap gains

From my new Boston Globe cartoon, Harriet Jacobs, George Washington, and the city of Cambridge www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/11/o...

Good summary of the Cambridge Public Schools Superintendent (named today) interviews by #CambMA School Committee candidate Anne Coburn. Crypto scam victim Garcia has a few answers that are disqualifyingly bad. Murphy seems like the best for the job to me. www.coburn-for-cambridge.com/newsletter/t...

Meet the candidates for School Committee October 9 (5-7:00 PM) Central Square Church 5 Magazine St. (Central Square) Meet the candidates for City Council October 18 (9-10:30 AM) The Comedy Studio 5 John F. Kennedy St. (Harvard Square) Sponsored by Cambridge Day. Hosted by Amira Valliani.

woah…Michette bakery opening a second location, just over the Cambridge line on Webster…wow

Candidates for City Council will sometimes lie and mislead the public. Here's why, some examples, and some techniques to spot these lies. letschangecambridge.us/articles/can... #CambMA #CambridgeMA

Learned a lot from this article on picking a school in the Cambridge Preschool Program by #CambMA School Committee candidate Eugenia Schraa Huh. CPP is free for all 4-year-olds! It's also how to get admission to popular K-5 Cambridge Public Schools programs. www.cambridgekidhelp.com/blog/cambrid...

Cambridge Public Schools superintendent candidate Lourenço Garcia withdrew $751k from his bank to buy a shitcoin that was a scam. He sued the bank for not stopping him and lost. Bad judgment. I won't vote for any Cambridge School Committee members who think he should run the $280M CPS budget #CambMA

Long profile on Cambridge City Manager Yi-An Huang: www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Today we're sharing a deeper dive into how we made our Council endorsements. We considered 3 major components: (1) a commitment to completing the CSO on schedule by 2026, (2) each candidate’s vision for the future drawn from our candidate questionnaire, and (3) the voting record of incumbents.

New: In this week’s Innovators column, I wrote about the founder of Shellf Life, a Providence-based startup that turns seafood shells into sustainable building materials and furniture. Here’s how it works: @bostonglobe.com @globeri.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/12/m...

Caught this in @maxread.info’s latest and this is such a good articulation of the difference between early 20s ambitious young people and folks who have a bit of experience (including failure). “It’s an attitude, not a skill” is it in a nutshell. maxread.substack.com/p/the-cracke...

Was just talking about this issue when discussing this stupid Anthropic experiment: www.anthropic.com/research/pro.... The way I put it was that they think they're producing robot doctors, but they're producing robot actors who play doctors on TV and then wondering why they can't do surgery.