Inbox: From: Charlie Baker <info@charliebaker2014.com> Subject: Happy Holidays Date: December 25, 2014 11:12:28 AM EST To: blue@vps28478.inmotionhosting.com Reply-To: Charlie Baker <info@charliebaker2014.com> Happy … [Read more...]

Some of us, no doubt, were expecting the worst.  But I have to say that, so far, by and large, Charlie Baker's appointments are not scary.  Some of them are even encouraging.  With a couple of possible exceptions. The two major possible … [Read more...]

Maintenance on the site has been completed, we think (we hope) successfully.  We had to change some settings, and these changes sometimes take a few hours to be fully implemented.  But there's a simple test for whether you can resume … [Read more...]

To be clear, this is only an idea and has not been formally proposed by anyone.  Still.... One of the options that the movers and shakers behind Boston 2024 have explored is their very own game run by the Lottery, which typically funnels … [Read more...]

Fascinating story in the Globe today: [Mayor Marty Walsh's] administration is seeking state approval to extend 15 of the city’s 18 urban renewal districts for another decade, allowing the BRA [Boston Redevelopment Authority] to use eminent … [Read more...]

UPDATED - see below Did it seem strange to you that a bridge that obviously had been deteriorating for years had to be shut down with no warning, such that residents on the island had to be rushed off so fast that they weren't even given … [Read more...]

An interesting question arose in this thread on the question whether there should be a referendum in Boston, or in Massachusetts, on hosting the Olympics.  After all, we don't ordinarily put public policy questions, even pretty big ones, on … [Read more...]

This speech, delivered shortly before the House passed the CRomnibus bill that reinstated the possibility of taxpayer-funded bailouts for banks engaged in derivatives trading - a provision that nobody in Congress will admit to actually … [Read more...]

Not sure why a British tabloid was first on this story, but there you go: the Daily Mail found Johnny (Hoa) Trinh, the guy Mark Wahlberg punched in the eye, and ascertained that Trinh supports Wahlberg's pardon application. In an exclusive … [Read more...]

This is really the $64,000 question, right?  Two Globe columnists - Shirley Leung and Joan Vennochi - have reported that Boston 2024 head honcho Dan O'Connell is promising not to force an Olympic venue down the throat of any community that … [Read more...]