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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/...
November 8, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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/...
November 7, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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:
November 5, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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The full round-by-round breakdown is on the City website now:

www.cambridgema.gov/Departments/...
Cambridge Municipal Election Preliminary Unofficial Results: November 4, 2025
The following results are unofficial as of November 4, 2025. Write-in, auxiliary, provisional, and overseas absentee ballots are not included in the results.
www.cambridgema.gov
November 5, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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Charter updates have been approved in #CambMA with 17,930 out of 23,745 votes – 75.5 percent of the votes.
November 5, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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.
November 5, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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)
November 5, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Analyzing the #cambma municipal election results in this thread... who will we see on the Cambridge City Council?
johnhawkinson.bsky.social John Hawkinson @johnhawkinson.bsky.social · 12d
This is my thread of #cambma Election Night live tracking results.
Google Sheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

So far no results, but the polls only just closed (8pm, or later if people are still in line), & mail-in ballots haven't all have been yet run through the machines at polling places.
Cambridge 2025 Municipal Election realtime tally
docs.google.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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
November 5, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Remember the single most important think you can do is bring a friend to vote!

Chris Cullen put together this great graph.
November 1, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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
gravelinfluencer.bsky.social Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 26d
Huh, so Massachusetts remains desirable to rich people even if they have to pay a little more in taxes. Go figure!
Many high-income taxpayers are staying in the Boston area despite the tax hike. “At the end of the day, I happen to believe it’s a phenomenal place to live,” said Sam Slater, a real estate developer who lives in the Boston suburb of Weston and pays the millionaire’s tax. Slater, 41, could live anywhere: His real estate firm has holdings nationwide. He travels frequently for his side job producing films starring big names like Mark Wahlberg. His holdings including a piece of the National Hockey League’s Seattle Kraken. He even spent part of his childhood in West Palm Beach, Florida, a favorite refuge for wealthy executives looking to flee high taxes and winters. But he’s staying put. His family has roots in the region, and they also like Boston’s culture, sports teams and seasons, Slater said.
October 22, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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From my new Boston Globe cartoon, Harriet Jacobs, George Washington, and the city of Cambridge www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/11/o...
October 11, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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...
Twenty Questions — Anne Coburn for Cambridge School Committee
Superintendent finalist interviews - Sept. 30, 2025
www.coburn-for-cambridge.com
October 6, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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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.
October 3, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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woah…Michette bakery opening a second location, just over the Cambridge line on Webster…wow
New michette New michette
September 30, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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letschangecambridge.us
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
Why and how Council candidates lie and mislead
City Council candidates will often lie or mislead voters about their position, and for good reason.
letschangecambridge.us
September 29, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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 Preschool Program Lottery: How to rank your choices [Table Included]
🥳  The good news:  The Cambridge Preschool Program (CPP) provides free preschool to  all  4-year-olds and  some  3-year-olds living in Cambridge. ☹️  The less good news:  The options...
www.cambridgekidhelp.com
September 28, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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
September 28, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Long profile on Cambridge City Manager Yi-An Huang: www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
The Man in the Middle | Magazine | The Harvard Crimson
Yi-An Huang ’05 is Cambridge’s eleventh city manager, and he sits atop a bureaucratic machine that employs nearly 4,000 staff. Every pothole that gets fixed, every police call that is made, and nearly...
www.thecrimson.com
September 23, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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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.
Chart of Cambridge City Council candidates ranked by Cambridge Bike Safety in 2025. Candidates are grouped into three categories: Bike Safety Champions (Burhan Azeem, Marc McGovern, Sumbul Siddiqui, Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler, Ayah Al-Zubi, Dana Ray Bullister, and Ned Melanson), Bike Safety Supporters (Patricia Nolan, Catherine Zusy, LaQueen Battle, Peter Hsu, and Stan Rivkin), and Do Not Rank (Zion Sheron, E. Denise Simmons, Ayesha Wilson, Elizabeth Bisio, Tim Flaherty, John Hanratty, and Robert Winters). Columns show whether each candidate is committed to completing the Cycling Safety Ordinance (CSO) in 2026, their street safety questionnaire grade, and their voting record on street safety if incumbent. Champions all commit to CSO; four incumbents have “Perfect” voting records. Supporters are mixed: some incumbents have mixed records and lower questionnaire grades (A–C). “Do Not Rank” candidates either oppose or did not commit to CSO, scored poorly or did not complete the questionnaire, or opposed safety votes as incumbents. Legend: (I) = incumbent. Questionnaire grading scale: A+ > 95, A = 90–95, B = 80–90, C < 80. N/A indicates not completed or non-incumbent.
September 10, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Why aren’t Cambridge’s disabled on the progressive agenda?
Here are a few candidate questions missing from progressives’ agenda to address the lack of attention being paid to Cambridge’s disabled residents.
dlvr.it
September 8, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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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...
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May 12, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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It’s too expensive to keep things the same
Cambridge now has, arguably, the highest rents in the nation – prices that are the direct outcome of decades of policy choices making it nearly impossible to build homes in most of our city. Now even our few proposals face roadblocks.
dlvr.it
August 11, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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dmnd.me
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...
Tweets by Bo Austin in my experience the problem with younger tech guys is really not what they don't know. they are very smart. they are however constitutionally incapable of knowing what they don't know. depending on the project, this makes them extremely risky hires the absolute smartest people I know know a lot, but more notable is that they are constantly moving things from the don't know they don't know category into the realm of things they know they don't know. the problem is that that's an attitude to develop and not a skill to learn. there might after all be a connection between — to use the idiotic terms — EQ and IQ. I've discovered there certainly is at an elite level at least
August 3, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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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.
July 3, 2025 at 8:19 PM