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A new affordable housing proposal has ignited debate over the role of single-family homes in Cambridge. Titled the “Missing Middle Housing Petition,” the proposal is sponsored by the affordable housing nonprofit A Better Cambridge and the Boston Sunrise Movement, and calls for zoning changes to allow for the construction of more multi-family “middle housing,” or four-plexes, triple-deckers, and townhouses. Over the last week, the petition has been met with mixed responses from City Councilors and residents. At an April 8 Ordinance Committee meeting, the City Council voted ...

ENISA Publishes Threat Landscape Reports for 2020 On October 20, 2020, the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity ("ENISA") published a series of reports on the threat landscape in 2020. The reports focused on, among other things, malware, data breaches, ransomware attacks, information leakage, and phishing attacks. The reports identified and evaluated the top cybersecurity threats for the period of January 2019-April 2020. ENISA Publishes Guidelines for Securing the IoT Supply Chain On November 9, 2020, ENISA published guidelines on securing the supply chain for the IoT. The guidelines ad...

What Cambridge's Public Safety Task Force hopes to accomplish Maxwell Bevington Wicked Local At 5:30 a.m. on a recent rainy Wednesday morning, Councilor Marc McGovern’s doorbell rang. A homeless man was at his doorstep, soaked, and looking for someone to help him find a place to stay. Shelters were at capacity. McGovern said the only thing he could do is call the police department, but the man said he did not want police involvement and left to find shelter elsewhere. If only there had been another service to call, McGovern said.  This is the sort of situation the new Public Safety Task F...

After Riot, Legal Reasons For Disparate Policing Prove Elusive By Sameer Rao | January 24, 2021, 8:02 PM EST Less than a week into the new year, Americans were confronted with the specter of insurrection as a mob echoing then-President Donald Trump's unfounded accusations of a rigged election stormed the U.S. Capitol. Images of people smashing windows, brandishing Confederate battle flags and zip ties, intimidating and assaulting Capitol Police officers and congresspeople and committing other wanton acts of destruction flooded social media feeds and news channels for days. Wi...

Gulfport, Miss – District Attorney Crosby Parker announced today that 33-year-old Clyde Fitzgerald Blocton was convicted by a jury of sexual battery of a child after a two-day trial at the Harrison County Courthouse. Circuit Court Judge Christopher Schmidt presided over the trial. The jury deliberated approximately four hours before reaching a verdict. The case […]