A wag (possibly Benjamin Disraeli) once observed that there are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.  Is that what's at work in this recently-released study (PDF available for download) showing that Massachusetts is among … [Read more...]

Busy lives make for poor blogging.  I keep seeing things I want to write about, but keep not being able to find the time to do it properly.  So this conglomeration will have to do.  Here goes... Did you see Jeff Jacoby's column a few … [Read more...]

Anybody with any sense recognizes that the MBTA has to be fixed.  And yet, even the rumor that the Baker administration will not sign off on a billion bucks worth of bonds that were destined for expanding the South Boston Convention Center, … [Read more...]

So this is what our politics is going to look like for the foreseeable future.  Could be entertaining. You might recall that Governor Baker is proposing, as part of his budget, to give the MBTA a 50% bump next fiscal year, up to almost … [Read more...]

A new poll from WBUR and MassINC shows that, over the past month, support among Boston-area residents for bringing the 2024 Olympics to Boston has nosedived.  As a result, one of the key claims made by Boston 2024 to the USOC - that Boston … [Read more...]

Here's Governor Charlie Baker at his press conference yesterday, discussing the woes of the MBTA and how to avoid them next time: “We need to start from the premise the taxpayers have been taxed enough,” he said, speaking to reporters at a … [Read more...]

I was planning to write this up last night, honest!  But I didn't get to it, and the Herald beat me to the punch.  No matter, it's still a good story. See, one thing everyone has been wondering - especially after the #MBTAfail of recent … [Read more...]

The Globe reports today that Boston 2024, under pressure from both landlord and tenant groups, has scrapped a particularly ill-conceived part of their plan to find enough housing in Boston for spectators.  Here's what they originally had in … [Read more...]

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