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.

but what do you really think brad lander hellgatenyc.com/brad-lander-...

Mookie Betts, Rafael Devers and Chris Sale have netted Vaughn Grissom, Alex Verdugo, Connor Wong, Jeter Downs, Jordan Hicks, and Kyle Harrison. Those trades would have the Red Sox kicked out of a fantasy league.

all the information you could ever want on a device in your pocket but the catch is it makes you dumb

Incredible blog here. This is a gift link: defector.com/what-world-d...

MBTA GM Phil Eng is loved in Boston: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/28/m...

@nikobowie.bsky.social on the Rule of Law: mailchi.mp/bostonglobe....

I wish I could say this story is made up: it is not. It's from Herval Freire who is Head of Engineering at mobile .dev. I hear similar ones from other eng managers hiring. Remote technical interviews feel increasingly broken - in good part thanks to AI "help" tools

It never feels good sending money to the government but it has never felt as bad as it does today. I know I have paid to produce so much suffering I’m not an idiot but there was always a plausible deniability baked in. Like how they put blanks in one of the firing squad rifles.

Taking your high school diploma to the local widget factory and leaving thirty years later with a gold watch and a pension was a freakish aberration of history and it's never coming back. But there are voters who think it's not only normal, but their birthright.

Not sure what % of people have the level of tech literacy where they know that even though they don't appear to join a channel in preview mode, their visit of that channel is still being tracked.

It's property tax season and once again, I have no sympathy for people who complain about their assessed values being too high when it's still waaaaay under what it would sell for on the market.

Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov will be interviewed by a reporter from the Boston Globe in front of a public audience at the Cambridge Upper School Tuesday night at 7pm. Free to attend: conversationwithcongresswoman.splashthat.com/digBG

Really good yet sad article about the death of local news in Cambridge. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025... Curious how other communities handle low news staffing

This is Uvalde: defector.com/this-is-uvalde

the united states needs a cryptocurrency reserve in case it needs to import massive amounts of heroin without the united states detecting it or as a hedge against the collapse of the united states

‘When someone gets a bigger fridge, they don’t just fill it with more stuff, but start to shop and cook (or not cook) in a different way.’ @KitchenBee on our refrigerated world: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

1 month in, I've reduced my use of the other app by 90-95%, from 4 hrs/wk to <20min. No more feed or browsing, mostly accidental clicks of embeds on websites and occasionally looking for something really specific. Today 5th straight day at 0. Didn't want to do it before, but easier than I thought.