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  • Friday’s Headlines Got Charlie Brown Again
    by The Editorial Team
    August 14, 2026
    Why won’t Democrats punt and then try a field goal if and when they take more power next year?
  • A wide sidewalk path runs alongside a line of cars waiting for a traffic signal in the distance. To the right is an overgrown meadow and a large leafy tree that shades the path. On the left edge a crosswalk leads across the roadway. In the middle distance to the left is a brick-clad highway viaduct.
    MassDOT’s Riverfront Interchange Plans In Cambridge Get a Little Smaller
    by Christian MilNeil
    August 13, 2026
    Engineers acknowledge that the Reid overpass, where Memorial Drive meets the Boston University Bridge, is “outdated and no longer reflects current best practices for safety, efficiency, or multimodal access.”
  • A map of northern Boston and Cambridge with an animated overlay of small icons consisting of photos of illegally-parked cars that pop up and spread in thick clusters across the map over the course of the loop. A timer in the upper center of the map depicts the date of each infraction, starting at July 1 and ending in July 31.
    Fed Up With Blocked Bike Lanes? ‘Bike Bureau’ Wants to Let City Hall Know It
    by Christian MilNeil
    August 12, 2026
    A software developer is working on an easier-to-use system to report illegally-parked vehicles and identify streets that need better physical protection for bike lanes.
  • An animated GIF showing a rendering of a new apartment building in one frame and the before-construction view of the same lot in the second frame. Both views are taken from an overpass overlooking a wide city street with the Boston skyline in the background. The rendering frame shows a new 6-story apartment building with new trees, a widened sidewalk, and a protected bike lane occupying part of the multi-lane city street in front of the building.
    City Hall Is On the Verge of Cancelling Privately-Funded Safety Improvements For Deadly East Boston Roadway
    by Christian MilNeil
    August 11, 2026
    The developers of a new apartment building near Day Square had been planning to build traffic-calming safety improvements on a segment of Bennington Street in East Boston. A new plan to cancel those improvements in favor of more parking faces a final vote from Boston’s Public Improvements Commission at its August 20 public hearing.
  • A rural two-lane roadway with a double yellow line painted down the middle and a cemetery on the right side of the street.
    Driver Kills 7-Year-Old Victim in Williamstown Crash
    by Christian MilNeil
    August 10, 2026
    There are no sidewalks on the segment of Main Street where the homicide occurred, less than a quarter-mile from the town library.
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