An eight-story, 99-room Hilton hotel for Teele Square returned to Somerville’s approval process Wednesday to fill a vacant lot known as “The Pit.” Developers faced questions about how they justified the project’s size, but also a new, easier standard for permitting under state law as they return... The post Hotel developer seeks size to pay for unknown ‘Pit’ contamination in a suddenly twice-as-troubled Teele Square appeared first on Cambridge | Somerville Independent.

Patriarchy hurts everyone.

More than 100 years old, the Association of Notre Dame lives along Massachusetts Avenue, sandwiched unassumingly between Eclipse Video and the wine bar Zusammen and beneath a judo club. The establishment, known colloquially as Le French Club, is an old-school “members only” club that tries to embody... The post Joke, smoke and play horseshoes with friends at Cambridge’s Le French Club appeared first on Cambridge | Somerville Independent.

Keynes was a liberal for our age: morally serious, hopeful for a better future, and yet reconciled to the compromises necessary to preserve the fragile liberal order.

Sen. Mitch McConnell's refusal or inability to step down and focus on his health demonstrates a larger issue of denial in America.

ALT: Sickos Haha Yes

Four out of every 10 neighbors are food insecure, according to the Greater Boston Food Bank — a staggering rate has more than doubled since 2019. I’ve seen this need firsthand while packing fresh food boxes at Food For Free, handing out free fresh food at the CHA Revere Health Center, and at our weekly Come to the Table meal at Connexion Church.

A bad press release makes a good excuse to look at how developmental biology works.