Women Are Here

This week listen as Mayor Siddiqui and Vice Mayor Mallon discuss eliminating parking minimums, Garden Street bike lanes, a potential citywide lab ban, rezoning North Mass Ave, Halloween events this weekend, and more! Stay up to date on all the Cambridge happenings with us!

This week listen as Mayor Siddiqui and Vice Mayor Mallon discuss agenda items at the upcoming City Council meeting, new bike lanes on Brattle and Garden Streets, Representative Pressley's visit to the Cambridge Community Center, the City's vaccine clinic schedule, the 6th annual MIT Volpe Block Party, and more! Stay up to date on all the Cambridge happenings with us!

This episode listen as Mayor Siddiqui and Vice Mayor Mallon discuss the HBO show "Mo", Girl's softball field disparities, banning Crisis Pregnancy Centers in Cambridge, Eliminating parking minimums, this week's repaving of Brattle Street to include protected bike lanes, upcoming events like Rib Fest and the Bow Tie ride and more. Stay up to date on all the Cambridge happenings with us!

This episode listen as Mayor Siddiqui and Vice Mayor Mallon discuss the recent statewide primary results, how much we both love Fall, items on the first regular City Council meeting since August, DHSP afterschool, increasing Linkage fees, proposed Cannabis moratorium extension, recent BEUDO and Housing Committee meetings, Danehy Park Family Day, and more. Stay up to date on all the Cambridge happenings with us!

This episode listen as Mayor Siddiqui and Vice Mayor Mallon discuss their favorite TV shows, the overturning of Roe v. Wade, the outcome of the City Manager search, updates on the Charter Review Committee, a fun Bollowood night with the Mayor at Starlight Square, COVID19 updates, and more. Stay up to date on all the Cambridge happenings with us!

This week listen as Mayor Siddiqui and Vice Mayor Mallon discuss our recent visit to a Kindergarten classroom at the Tobin Montessori School, a pilot of SMART rat boxes, appropriating funds for snow removal equipment for bikes lanes, tackling food insecurity using ARPA dollars, waiving dog license fees for residents over 70, MYSEP application information, COVID19 case rate and vaccine rate updates, and more. Stay up to date on all the Cambridge happenings with us!

This week listen as Mayor Siddiqui and Vice Mayor Mallon discuss Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's Supreme Court confirmation hearings, Cat & Kitten Cafes, the Green Line Extension opening, COVID19 updates, the City's Green Fleet Policy, Riverbend Park updates, the resumption of street cleaning next week, and more. Stay up to date on all the Cambridge happenings with us!

This week listen as Mayor Siddiqui and Vice Mayor Mallon discuss exciting new restaurants in Cambridge, COVID19 walk in testing changes, City Manager search updates, mask mandates being lifted, ARPA funding meetings, Porter Square bike lane updates, and more. Stay up to date on all the Cambridge happenings with us!

This week listen as Mayor Siddiqui and Vice Mayor Mallon discuss our fave new show Abbott Elementary, current COVID19 rates and upcoming booster shot clinics, City Manager search updates, School Budget meetings, the Super Sunday road race this Sunday, last call for the 5th annual Warm Hearts for Warm Feet sock drive, Universal Pre-K roundtable on Monday, and more. Stay up to date on all the Cambridge happenings with us!

This week listen as Mayor Siddiqui and Vice Mayor Mallon discuss our shared love of Michael Tubbs, former Mayor of Stockon, CA, current COVID19 rates and upcoming booster shot clinics, City Manager search updates, the Superintendent's contract extension vote, the 5th annual Warm Hearts for Warm Feet sock drive, policy orders of note on Monday's City Council agenda, and more. Stay up to date on all the Cambridge happenings with us!

This week listen as Mayor Siddiqui and Vice Mayor Mallon discuss the Sumbul's morning at the E.R., current COVID19 rates and upcoming booster shot clinics, the City Manager search, Fare Free Bus Letter to the MBTA, the 5th annual Warm Hearts for Warm Feet sock drive, Golf Course policy orders and more. Stay up to date on all the Cambridge happenings with us!

This week listen as Mayor Siddiqui and Vice Mayor Mallon discuss the series finale of Insecure (a fave!), current COVID19 rates and upcoming booster shot clinics, our first City Council meeting of the term, Bike Lane Policy Orders, Dr. MLK Jr. Day events, the City's Scholarship program and more. Stay up to date on all the Cambridge happenings with us!

This week listen as Mayor Siddiqui and Vice Mayor Mallon discuss current COVID19 rates and the Omicron variant, the City Council inauguration, updates to our mask mandate, City building staffing updates for January and February, City Manager search updates  and more. Stay up to date on all the Cambridge happenings with us!

This week listen as Mayor Siddiqui and Vice Mayor Mallon discuss current COVID19 rates, upcoming vaccine clinics, policy orders to expand testing hours and distribute state provided rapid tests, the Cambridge Local First local holiday shopping guide and more. Stay up to date on all the Cambridge happenings with us!

This week listen as Mayor Siddiqui and Vice Mayor Mallon discuss current COVID19 rates, the annual teen health survey and CRLS walkout to protest sexual assaut and harrassment, local events to attend this weekend including the CRLS play, Holiday Strolls and Craft/Art fairs, upcoming vaccine clinics and more!

This week listen as Mayor Siddiqui and Vice Mayor Mallon discuss the decline in COVID19 cases in Cambridge, 2021 Ballot Questions, voting options (by mail, early in person, in person on election day!) for the municipal election, Monday's City Council agenda and fun stuff to do this weekend!

This week listen as Mayor Siddiqui and Vice Mayor Mallon discuss Cicada Coffee Bar's new dinner menu, COVID19 and vaccination updates, DHSP Afterschool programming, the newly announced Children's Savings Accounts, Language Justice in Cambridge, the opening of Toomey Park in East Cambridge, and other helpful information!

This week listen as Mayor Siddiqui and Vice Mayor Mallon discuss industrial strength concealer, COVID19 and vaccination updates, the formation of a Cambridge-Boston Tourism Destination Marketing District, the new M'Powered pop up at CambridgeSide supporting MWBE's with retail space, Black Panther 2 and City Council meetings and local events to attend next week!

This week listen as Mayor Siddiqui and Vice Mayor Mallon discuss canvassing while sweating, COVID19 and vaccination updates, Cambridge RISE news, celebrity sightings and some local events to attend this weekend! 

This week listen as Mayor Siddiqui and Vice Mayor Mallon discuss HBO's White Lotus, COVID19 and vaccination updates, community and City Council responses to the recent uptick in gun violence, the City Manager search, renaming the Agassiz neighborhood and some local events to attend this weekend and next!

This week listen as Mayor Siddiqui and Vice Mayor Mallon discuss their fave new shows and restaurants, COVID19 and vaccination updates, the recent uptick in gun violence, the new Social Worker at the Central Square Library and some great local events to look forward to this weekend and beyond! 

This week listen as Mayor Siddiqui and Vice Mayor Mallon discuss the recently announced Friends reunion show, COVID19 updates, the FY22 Budget hearings, vaccine updates, the long anticipated return of Curbside Composting and some great local events to look forward to! 

This week listen as Mayor Siddiqui and Vice Mayor Mallon discuss Mare of Eastown on HBO and reruns of The Nanny, COVID19 updates, the recently announced Cambridge RISE guaranteed income pilot, the FY22 Budget hearings, the Interim Superintendent search, Iftar meals, the CRLS Semi-Formal event at Starlight Square and more!

This week listen as Mayor Siddiqui and Vice Mayor Mallon discuss Sumbul's enduring love for Grey's Anatomy, the latest COVID19 update, vaccination eligibility updates and appointment options, the "Green Roofs" petition ordinance meeting next week, an update to the Tree Protection Ordinance, Interim Superintendent finalists and more!

This week listen as Mayor Siddiqui and Vice Mayor Mallon discuss some of their recent restaurant experiences at Tallulah and Pammy's, the Covid Memorial at City Hall, the Ciyt's Covid19 update, Alewife zoning petition vote, a proposed Tear Gas ordinance, the newly released back to in person learning schedule from DESE, the DIYDS Youth Film Festival, Yoga with the Mayor and more!

Cambridge Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui and Vice Mayor Alanna Mallon discuss the tragic loss of CRLS student Sina Ball and resources for teens and families, updates on the vaccination roll out, a run down of items on the City Council agenda Monday night, the B-1-351 variant detected in a Cambridge resident, last night's “Arts Forum” and the next Elevate program!

Cambridge Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui and Vice Mayor Alanna Mallon discuss vaccination roll out, the Comcast price hike is delayed, a new "Missing Middle" zoning petition, the 4th annual Warm Hearts for Warm Feet Wool Sock Drive for unhoused residents, the second round of Emergency Grants for Cambridge nonprofits, and how to stop Facebook from spying on you!

In the first episode of 2021, Cambridge Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui and Vice Mayor Alanna Mallon discuss the January 6th insurrection, the Concord Avenue Fire, vaccine updates and communication updates, the resignation of the Cambridge Pubic Schools Superintendent, the proposed reopening of grades 4-12th, Cambridge's Free Cash, the bars on the MBTA benches, and the arrival of The Daily Table in Central Square.

Cambridge Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui and Vice Mayor Alanna Mallon end the year with conversation about Girlfriends on Netflix, a COVID19 Update, rollbacks, homeless shelter updates, the City's purchase of BB&N's field on Fresh Pond Parkway, the BioMed building zoning approval, Small Business Winter COVID19 grants open, and gratitude and looking forward to 2021!

Cambridge Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui and Vice Mayor Alanna Mallon provide an update on COVID19 in Cambridge, discuss the switch to fully remote learning in the Cambridge Public School, expanding the Homebridge program, new Small Business grants and the rental relief program, the Green Roof zoning petition, supporting food pantries and closing the SNAP gap.

Cambridge Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui and Vice Mayor Alanna Mallon discuss The Undoing on HBO, a COVID update, Opportunity @ Starlight Square, the Warming Center opens, mobile testing, and the need to Shop Local y'all!

Cambridge Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui and Vice Mayor Alanna Mallon discuss the ELECTION RESULTS!!! Season 457 of Grey's Anatomy, the City's last free Flu Shot Clinic on Saturday, the MBTA's “Forging Ahead” plan, the School Committee Metrics vote, an Arts & Culture center in Kendall Square, the City reopens the search for 19th Amendment Public Art.

Cambridge Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui and Vice Mayor Alanna Mallon discuss expanded covid testing, election anxiety(!), Campaign Finance Reform, Parking Permit fee increase, The Queen's Gambit on Netflix, and how much they love their moms.

Cambridge Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui and Vice Mayor Alanna Mallon discuss the upcoming election, a real estate transfer tax proposal, the newly established Cultural Capital Fund, the CPS Principals roundtable, and an update on the procedural justice dashboard.

Tune in as Cambridge Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui and Vice Mayor Alanna Mallon as they discuss schools' reopening, public health guidance for Halloween, and COVID case numbers, to the popular Fall on the Fields Program, vacant storefront policy recommendations, and pedestrianizing Harvard Square.

Cambridge Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui and Vice Mayor Alanna Mallon have much to discuss! In this episode, the Vice Presidential Debate, the Rose Garden Super Spreader event, HBO's "The Vow," Liberation Libraries, the passage of the Affordable Housing Overlay and the Cycling Safety Ordinance, the return to schools on Tuesday, voting options in Cambridge, Re-imagining Public Safety, and the Tax Rate hearing. So much to talk about!

Cambridge Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui and Vice Mayor Alanna Mallon discuss Away and the Challenger documentary on Netflix, and then move on to City business: COVID-19 testing, Cambridge Public Schools re-opening and testing plans, the City Manager's contract extension and the reconsideration of that vote, a review of the City Charter, the Tenant Rights ordinance, a pilot to close Harvard Square to vehicular traffic, flu shot clinic information, and the call for artists for the Tobin Montessori and Vassal Lane Upper School public art. 9-24-2020

Cambridge Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui and Vice Mayor Alanna Mallon discuss the Cambridge Public School reopening plans, the "Nice White Parents" podcast, planning for Harvard, MIT, and Lesley's return to campus, vote by mail information, Cambridge Public Library updates, and more.

Cambridge Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui and Vice Mayor Alanna Mallon RETURN with important and timely updates on COVID-19 testing, the return to school, Indian matchmaking on Netflix, eliminating library fines, the Tenants Notification Act, the Police Inventory Report, the Real Estate Transfer Tax, arts funding, and Starlight Square!

Cambridge Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui and Vice Mayor Alanna Mallon break away to share their thoughts on the murder of George Floyd, COVID 19 updates, Safe and Healthy, the Shared Streets Pilot, the "Pick it Up Cambridge" campaign, summer meal sites, and Porter Square Books donation. Recorded for Cambridge Community Television

Cambridge Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui and Vice Mayor Alanna Mallon discuss “Never Have I Ever”, COVID-19 updates & racial disparities, the new universal testing site open in East Cambridge, support for domestic violence victims, the Cambridge emergency mask order, the announcement of the Small Business grant/loan program, and books given out at school meal sites.

Cambridge Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui and Vice Mayor Alanna Mallon resume their series in the context of dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. They provide updates on the coronavirus and answer questions from the community. Recorded with Cambridge Community Television 4-24-2020.

Cambridge Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui and Vice Mayor Alanna Mallon bring us up to date on the City's efforts to address the impact of COVID-19 on our community: the Mayor's Disaster Relief Fund, the Cambridge Community Foundation Artist Relief Fund & Cambridge Emergency Fund, Food For Free food distribution, CPS School Meals Distribution, Construction Moratorium, Drive thru testing site at Somerville Hospital.

Cambridge Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui and Vice Mayor Alanna Mallon bring Cambridge up to date on how the City is dealing with the coronavirus.

Cambridge Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui and Vice Mayor Alanna Mallon discuss all things Cambridge and beyond. This week: "Love is Blind" on Netflix, Elizabeth Warren, Rindge Towers affordability preservation, Coronavirus report request, mayoral school visits, census complete count 2020, and rodent response. Recorded at Cambridge Community Television.

Cambridge Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui and Vice Mayor Alanna Mallon discuss all things Cambridge and beyond. This week: the finale of The Good Place, eliminating late fees at the Cambridge Public Library, the Affordable Housing Overlay is back on the agenda, requesting a municipal broadband feasibility study, update on linkage fees, the lights at Glacken Field, zoning for the Grand Junction Path and the Eversource substation, and Taste of Carnival this weekend! Recorded at Cambridge Community Television.

Cambridge Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui and Vice Mayor Alanna Mallon bring listeners up to date on the latest: Sumbul's birthday! Warm Hearts Warm Feet sock drive, the Tree Moratorium extension, the Tree PATRIARCHY, passage of the Welcoming Cities Ordinance, condemning the Indian Citizenship Amendment Act, the mattress recycling program with UTEC, and the School Committee budget roundtable. Recorded at Cambridge Community Television.

Cambridge Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui and Vice Mayor Alanna Mallon discuss the Mayor's upcoming birthday (2/14!), the Glocal Challenge event, firehouse renovations, early voting for the presidential primary, sensory bags for police vehicles, the proposed natural gas ban, School Committee business, Warm Hearts for Warm Feet Wool Sock Drive, a fare free bus pilot, VOTE16MA, and Harvard Square rezoning. Recorded at Cambridge Community Television

Cambridge Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui and Vice Mayor Alanna Mallon move into this next council term with discussion about Ayanna Pressley's video, the passing of the facial surveillance ban by the council, the tree protection moratorium extension, the Dr. MLK, Jr Day of Service, Robin D'Angelo and "white fragility," the Cambridge Public Schools budget process, the summer meals pilot expansion report, and the availability of Halal food in the schools. Recorded at Cambridge Community Television.

Sumbul Siddiqui, the new mayor of Cambridge, and Alanna Mallon, the new vice mayor (!!!) begin Season 2 of their podcast, Women Are Here. They reflect upon the their inauguration and that of the new school committee,the Cambridge Public Schools budget process, the 19th Amendment public art process, YWCA's Comedy for a Cause, the Islamic Center of Boston visit, city council committee appointments, the MLK Food Drive, and the Vacant Storefront Creative Design Contest. Recorded at Cambridge Community Television

Cambridge City Councillors Alanna Mallon and Sumbul Siddiqui talk about Christmas in Cambridge and Sumbul's experience of the holiday as someone whose family is not Christian. Also, the Vote 16 effort, the Cambridge Youth Council, CRLS bus passes, Cambridge Carnival, Craftwoods, Participatory Budgeting, and holiday cheer! Recorded at Cambridge Community Television.