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Early Voters in Cambridge Head to Polls for 2025 Municipal Elections

A little more than a week before election day, Cambridge voters are already heading to the polls to take part in the city’s most crowded municipal election in recent history, after early, in-person voting opened  Saturday.

‘A Serious Underdog’: Melanson Brings Progressive Platform to First Cambridge Campaign

Ned S. Melanson has been a close observer of Cambridge politics since the local last election cycle — but until this year, the five-year Cambridge resident had never run in any election, not even for school president.

At Final City Council Candidate Forum, YWCA Gives Disadvantaged Cambridge Residents a Platform

Eleven Cambridge panelists representing traditionally disadvantaged voices in the city shared their stories with City Council candidates, centering Canterbridgians as the “soul of the community” at a forum held by Cambridge’s Young Women’s Christian Association, Cambridge Community Foundation, and the Cambridge Economic Opportunity Commission.


Moulton to Return Donations from Pro-Israel PAC As Senate Race Approaches

Representative Seth W. Moulton ‘01 (D-Mass.) pledged last week to return all donations he has received from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and refused to accept future campaign funding from the organization.


Lilly Havstad Wants to ‘Flip the Script’ in Run for School Committee

In a crowded field of eighteen candidates for Cambridge’s School Committee, six are educators and ten currently have kids in the district. Lilly Havstad is both — and thinks that her perspective is exactly what the School Committee needs to rebuild parents’ and educators’ trust.


Tech Experts See Artificial Intelligence as a Key Resource Ahead of Local Elections

Schneier and Sanders, a Harvard Kennedy School lecturer, co-authored the book “Rewiring Democracy” that was released on Oct. 21. The two appeared at a Cambridge Public Library panel to share more about how citizens can use AI to get involved in politics on Wednesday evening.


Head of the Charles Boats Bring Bank for Harvard Square Businesses

The Head of the Charles Regatta brings hundreds of thousands of spectators and more than 11,000 athletes to the banks of the Charles River. But they don’t stay there — many venture into Harvard Square for food, shopping, and entertainment, bringing an annual explosion of consumer activity to local businesses.

Moulton to Return Donations from Pro-Israel PAC As Senate Race Approaches

Representative Seth W. Moulton ‘01 (D-Mass.) pledged last week to return all donations he has received from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and refused to accept future campaign funding from the organization.

Cambridge Planning Board Approves Recommendation to Raise Height Limits for Mass. Ave. Residential Buildings

The Cambridge Planning Board unanimously voted in a Tuesday meeting to recommend two petitions to increase height limitations for residential buildings along Massachusetts Avenue and Cambridge Street to the City Council.

Lilly Havstad Wants to ‘Flip the Script’ in Run for School Committee

In a crowded field of eighteen candidates for Cambridge’s School Committee, six are educators and ten currently have kids in the district. Lilly Havstad is both — and thinks that her perspective is exactly what the School Committee needs to rebuild parents’ and educators’ trust.

Tech Experts See Artificial Intelligence as a Key Resource Ahead of Local Elections

Schneier and Sanders, a Harvard Kennedy School lecturer, co-authored the book “Rewiring Democracy” that was released on Oct. 21. The two appeared at a Cambridge Public Library panel to share more about how citizens can use AI to get involved in politics on Wednesday evening.

Cambridge Redevelopment Authority Approves Plan to Preserve Central Square Cultural Institutions

The Cambridge Redevelopment Authority voted unanimously Wednesday to move ahead with drafting a plan to reshape Central Square into a cultural district, zeroing in on the historic Dance Complex as the first project.

More than a Hundred Residents Receive Free Vaccines at City Pop-Up Clinic

More than a hundred Cambridge residents received free flu and Covid-19 vaccines at the Cambridge Senior Center on Tuesday, kicking off the city’s annual series of free pop-up vaccine clinics.

Head of the Charles Boats Bring Bank for Harvard Square Businesses

The Head of the Charles Regatta brings hundreds of thousands of spectators and more than 11,000 athletes to the banks of the Charles River. But they don’t stay there — many venture into Harvard Square for food, shopping, and entertainment, bringing an annual explosion of consumer activity to local businesses.