Feds withdraw funding notice just before hearing

"Huang said the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development had withdrawn the notice of funding opportunity, or NOFO, for the Continuum of Care program less than 90 minutes before a court hearing on both suits before District Court judge Mary S. McElroy in Rhode Island Monday. Cambridge city solicitor Megan Bayer told councillors that the judge “was very displeased with this last-minute change from the federal government, and specifically commented on how she worked all weekend to prepare for this hearing, and knows that plaintiff’s attorneys worked many hours, and she does not appreciate these shenanigans from the federal government.”

Cambridge Continues to Be In The Front Line of Legal Conflicts With the Trump Administration

#OurModernTimes #HUD #Cambridge #NOFO #ContinuumOfCareProgram #JudgeMarySMcElroy #RI #FedralShenanigans

Suit claims inclusionary zoning is illegal

This Could Have National Repercussions... More Far Right Attempts To Rule By Lawsuit While They Control the SJC Nationally

#OurModernTimes #Cambridge #MA #Zoning #AttemptsToSegregateThe Poor #PredatorsAmongUs

Cambridge And The Fight Against Trump:

Article From The Crimson

#OurModernTimes #Resistance #Lawsuits #Harvard #Cambridge #Trump #MIT #Tufts #Sanofi #Novartis #Moderna #NIH #CityCouncil #HUD #HomelandSecurity #DOT #Resistance

How Cambridge Is Fighting the Trump Administration in Court | News | The Harvard Crimson

The city of Cambridge has joined two lawsuits against the Trump administration’s attempts to condition federal grants on cooperation with immigration agents and the repeal of DEI efforts.

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For Cambridge, July 3 is the claim to fame

Cambridge - Where the Continental Army First Formed In The American Revolution

#History #AmericanRevolution #MA #Cambridge #Washington #GeorgeWashington

Judge halts another Trump administration effort to block foreign students from attending Harvard

Another Fail For Trump

#Cambridge #MA #Harvard #Trump #FirstAmendment #ForeignStudents #JudgeAllisonBurroughs #EndTrumpTyranny #HarvardTrumpWar

Judge halts another Trump administration effort to block foreign students from attending Harvard

The order preserves the ability of foreign students to travel to the U.S. for study at Harvard while the case is decided.

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Boston (and here in Cambridge) is at The Highest Temperature It's Ever Been Today

The highest temperature recorded was 104 degrees Fahrenheit (40 Celsius) on July 4, 1911.

2:15 PM and we have matched that Record. And It Could Potentially Break that Record.

#Boston #Cambridge #HighestRecordedTemperature #HistoryBreaking #Climate #Weather

Cambridge is suing to get promised federal funds without having to pledge against DEI, immigrants

Meanwhile, Here in Cambridge....

#OurModernTimes #News #Cambridge #MA #DEI #Immigrant #LawsuitVsTrumpAdministration #Seattle

Judge Halts Trump Admin’s Attempt to Withhold HUD Funds From Cambridge

Once More The Battle Ends up in the Court over Trump Administrative Overreach.

The ruling comes after Cambridge joined more than 30 other towns, cities, and counties in a lawsuit against U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Scott Turner. The lawsuit argues that adoption of certain policies “in exchange for Continuum of Care funds is an abuse of executive power and violates the Constitution and federal laws,” according to a city statement.

Just Posted On the Harvard Crimson

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Judge Halts Trump Admin’s Attempt to Withhold HUD Funds From Cambridge | News | The Harvard Crimson

A federal judge granted Cambridge a second temporary restraining order on Friday against the Trump administration’s attempt to tie homelessness funds to compliance with executive orders the city says violate its Welcoming City Ordinance.

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US citizen says ICE mistakenly took him into custody outside Massachusetts courthouse

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. —A U.S. citizen said he was mistakenly taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents outside a Massachusetts courthouse Friday. He was later released after agents confirmed his identity. Hugo Monteiro, a 31-year-old Brazilian American from Revere, said he was taken by ICE agents outside Cambridge District Court when they confused him for another person.

Here We Go Again...

#News #ICE #Cambridge #MA #TheyJustDon'tLearn #IntimidationTactics #ICECrimes

US citizen says ICE mistakenly took him into custody outside Massachusetts courthouse

A U.S. citizen from Revere was mistakenly taken into custody by ICE agents outside a Cambridge courthouse. He was released after proving his identity.

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How the highlighter was invented in Cambridge by Carter’s Ink, an innovator back to the 1800s

A Piece Of Cambridge MA History Most Folks Didn't Know

#History #LocalHistory #Highlighters #Invention #Cambridge #MA

Cambridge, Massachusetts, inks record 50 MW virtual PPA deal with MN8 Energy

It’s the largest VPPA signed by a U.S. city and the first time a city will use one to offset residential carbon emissions, according to deal broker Sustainability Roundtable.

Cambridge MA In The News

#Energy #CarbonEmissions #Cambridge #MA #VPPA

Cambridge, Massachusetts, inks record 50 MW virtual PPA deal with MN8 Energy

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Sticker shock: MBTA says nearly $25 billion needed to repair aging system

That cost includes only repairs and not any upgrades to the system
Massachusetts Congressman Seth Moulton also issued a statement Thursday calling the T's announcement "the honest assessment we've been waiting for." He added that "$24.5 billion is a big number, but it’s not shocking given the accumulation of decades of under-investment."

Massachusetts MBTA Is In Serious Trouble

#CharlieScrewedUs #MBTA #Boston #Cambridge #Massachusetts #RepublicanNeglegence

The Skeletons of the Red Line

Meanwhile... Beneath Harvard Square....

#History #HarvardSquare #MBTA #Cambridge #MA #SubwaySecrets #TransportationHistory #Technology #HArvardCrimson

The Skeletons of the Red Line | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson

The six-minute subway ride between Harvard and Central Square isn’t the most entertaining journey. But if passengers were to squint out the window as the Red Line rounded the curve out of Harvard Station, they could see the abandoned shell of another…

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