Jess Sheehan

I biked home in the dark from North Cambridge recently—which I wouldn’t have felt safe doing before the protected bike lanes.

One thing I love about biking in a city is you can stop & check things out in a way you can’t in a car.

Like the telescopes on Cambridge Common for Observe the Moon night!

CBS is hosting a "How to Talk to Your Friends and Neighbors About Bike Safety" event at the Harvard Square Patagonia on 10/16 from 7:30-9 PM. We will also distribute bike lights! Sign up: actionnetwork.org/events/how-t...

Also why I remain relatively optimistic about election integrity despite the likelihood of attempted fuckery

Laughing and crying

CCC helpfully demonstrating how "strategically" endorsing someone who disagrees with your policy positions can backfire

Grow The Library | Community Pedal Power (Powered by Donorbox) Two years ago, the E-Bike Lending Library started with just 4 bikes in a backyard. Today, we’ve completed more than 1000 loans, grown to 40 bikes and a team of more than a dozen volunteers, lending 15...

@communitypedalpower.org , our local #cambma ebike lending library, has helped our family biking community grow by leaps and bounds.

They’re doing a funding drive to increase their capacity, consider throwing them a few bucks.

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Join CBS for a bike safety event on Tuesday, October
7, at 6:30 PM at Portico Brewery, just over the line in
Somerville in Boynton Yards. This short course will
cover the necessary steps you need to take if you are
ever in a crash so you are better prepared.

A Better Cambridge City Council Candidate Forum, September 10th 2025 CCTV Cambridge City Election Coverage 2025: ABC City Council Candidate Forum at The Cambridge Senior Center Make art. Be heard. Donate here: https://secure.cctvcambridge.org/forms/donation

The good news is the video is now available here: vimeo.com/1121333154?f...

The bad news is the audio isn't great.

Photos of ABC's endorsed candidates - Burhan Azeem, Dana Bullister, Marc McGovern, Ned Melanson, Sumbul Siddiqui, Denise Simmons, Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler, and Ayesha Wilson.

There are many people like Christine, who would benefit so much from a safe, clean, private space to call their own. We can build more of them.

But we need a city council willing to, even when it gets hard.

www.abettercambridge.org/election2025

Where is it "appropriate" to build affordable housing, supportive housing, mixed income housing? It is appropriate in every neighborhood.

Home at Last: Christina Mumm's Journey to Norfolk Street - CHA When Christine Mumm walked the short stretch from the Cambridge Multi-Service Center to 116 Norfolk Street to sign her lease, it became the most meaningful walk of her life. Just the day before, she h...

This housing exists today because of the AHO. We need to elect candidates who support more housing like this.

Unfortunately I can. Renters are still an afterthought when it comes to voting, despite the housing crisis supposedly being a top state issue. And our Secretary of State Bill Galvin opposes same day registration.

MA elections should not be held on September 1, by far the biggest moving day in the state, because it makes it harder for renters to vote.

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This is one of many reasons Cambridge's multi-family zoning reform, which relegalizes small and midsize apartment buildings city-wide, is good, actually.

Good. As Mayor Wu said, Boston is not for sale.

No, but I think it will be available on CCTV's Vimeo page at some point

Wow. I hadn't read the whole thing yet. Yeah that's worse than I thought. Combining an outright lie with insulting and dismissing 2/3 of the city. Unfortunately I can't not vote for her any harder than I was going to anyway, but it's good motivation to double down on supporting good candidates.

Ah you're right, thank you for the correction!

I don't bike, but my fiance does, and my desire to see him come home from work alive and unhurt every day certainly makes this an issue I prioritize on my ballot.

I'm not sure that's her definition of community, but I agree her idea of it seems to all but exclude cyclists.

On the CBS questionnaire she said we need to rethink the City's commitment to Vision Zero. (!!) I knew she wasn't bike friendly, but seeing that in writing so explicitly did surprise me.

*public health

CCTV usually airs the recording of ABC's candidate forum a few times before the election. I encourage everyone to watch it in full!

It's very informative - there's no way I could do real justice to everything the candidates said. Every candidate said much more than the few highlights I captured.

Forum is over. As always, I aim to be accurate but I don't pretend to be unbiased.

Denise Simmons arrives. She was in fact dealing with a family that needs urgent help. She cautions against rumors and fear, and asks for patience re sharing any the details as she doesn't want to further endanger anyone.

Mod cites a very fiery quote Zusy said at an earlier time deciding groups like ABC as a special interest group and calling renters here "transients." She acknowledges she was tired when she said that, but imo doesn't really make it better.

She's asked whether she agrees with the Envision housing production numbers and kind of dodges the question imo.

If she's going to lean on Envision to say we should concentrate building in squares and corridors, it's weird to toss out the rest.

Cathie Zusy is asked why she was the lone No vote in the 8-1 vote to pass the recent multi-family zoning. She says she didn't think it would produce affordable housing, thinks it's inconsistent with Envision Cambridge and it's "brutal" to abutters.

RE balancing historic preservation with new housing, he says they can coexist, as they will with the Harriet Jacobs House. He's right!

Sobrinho-Wheeler wants to fund social housing through the Affordable Housing Trust and has worked with Azeem and Siddiqui to raise the linkage fee on commercial development. He mentions there's state money available for social housing pilots and we should take advantage.

Venden says it's not clear what kind of housing the city needs. She says the Cambridge Historical Commission has been put in the position of policing development.

RE the latter I agree with her assessment, but unless I missed it, it doesn't point to a solution.