Kudos to Mac Daniel, the Globe's excellent "Starts & Stops" reporter, who today once again takes the Department of Conservation and Recreation to task for its inane propensity to close one lane of Storrow Drive for parking when there … [Read more...]
“Crew is now using duct tape to hold bolt to ceiling.”
Proving once again that truth is stranger than fiction. … [Read more...]
Reilly, Goldberg, Trav, others took contributions from ex-Modern Continental exec
Not sure how I missed this find by Kim Atkins earlier this week. Fortunately, Adam and Bruce both noticed it. Remember how Tom Reilly said he stopped taking campaign contributions from Big Dig contractors in early 2005 when he … [Read more...]
More finger-pointing, please
So, Chris Gabrieli has a new ad out about the Big Dig, calling for an end to the "excuses and finger-pointing." Well, I'm down with him on the excuses, but finger-pointing? Are you kidding? Let's have more finger-pointing.As I've written … [Read more...]
Romney raises Bechtel bucks
Is anyone surprised by this?Just 10 weeks before the roof came crashing down in the I-90 connector, Romney accepted generous contributions from both Bechtel and Parsons Brinckerhoff, made to the Republican Governors Association (RGA), of … [Read more...]
If wishes were trains
... then Eileen McNamara would ride. Gosh, I wish, I wish I could share her optimism that public transit will seem more attractive in light of recent events:Skyrocketing gas prices and the collapse of ceiling panels in the Interstate 90 … [Read more...]
Mit Romney: All for one or all for him?
When Romney jumped in to turn around the Olympics, the big event had not happened yet. In fact, Romney was brought in about 3 years before the big event. If things were not running well beforehand, then it looks like Romney did âturn … [Read more...]
Jeff Jacoby, GOP Waterboy At Your Service!
The Big Dig is indeed a monument to O'Neill. It captures perfectly the costly big-government sloppiness for which he was the poster child. Only in the public sector, where market discipline is nonexistent and financial losses are the … [Read more...]
The Big Big Dig List
OK, so here's a list of people I want to see giving testimony at a long table that comes up to their necks, with nothing but a glass of lukewarm, sediment-laden tap water to comfort them:Jim Kerasiotes: Head of the Big Dig from 1991-2000. … [Read more...]
Taking Paynes
Former Deval Patrick aide and Rat-Pack-talkin' political observer Dan Payne was on 'BUR this morning, talking about the effect of the Big Dig on the gubernatorial race. We agree that it's the new oxygen-sucker; Payne notes that neither … [Read more...]
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