August 20th, 2025​
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Thanks to Pete and the What's That About? team for conducting this Challenger Candidate video interview series with Cambridge Community TV. We covered a lot of ground and some tough questions: our homelessness crisis, arts and nightlife, cycling and pedestrian safety, the bar advocate strike, and even whom I would support for Mayor. We discussed Fast Cars, and I staked my position as a big fan of Tracy Chapman and lower speed limits.
July 24th, 2025
​An Op-Ed published in BINJ's HorizonMass.
Candidate Profile: Ned Melanson
Help for city’s most vulnerable tops list of goals for public defender Melanson’s run for council
August 11, 2025​
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"As a public defender, Ned Melanson said he is on the “front lines” of many of the issues Cambridge faces. And in representing clients who face poverty and homelessness and substance abuse issues, he said, he has perspective and ideas on how to help the city’s most vulnerable groups to bring to the City Council in November."​
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“They put the housing crisis in quotation marks,” he said of the council. “For my clients, and for myself and for my friends, it’s not something you put in quotation marks, it’s a very real everyday problem you think about.”
