Thank you for the ideas and suggestions you've left in the comments of my original post. As I expected, Blue Mass Group readers came through with progressive and thoughtful ideas to make Boston the greatest city in America. … [Read more...]
Give Me Your Ideas for Making Boston America’s Best City–From City Council Prez Mike Ross
Yesterday afternoon, I had the great honor of being unanimously re-elected President of the Boston City Council. I'm thrilled that my colleagues have given me another year to develop innovative ways we can make Boston a world-class … [Read more...]
Alleged Perils of Term Limits
Of course it's bagels to donuts comparing Boston's mayorship with Kennedy's role. Yet, that is a powerful argument that proponents of local term limits need to confront directly.Similarly, at-large Councilor Steve Murphy … [Read more...]
Pending Boston Vote on Term Limits
At yesterday's Government Operations Committee hearing, numerous voters made it plain they favored limits. One spoke against and maybe 18 in favor. Coverage of that is at Marry in Massachusetts and surprisingly good detail at the … [Read more...]
The Case for the Commonwealth Against Slots and Casinos
It seems like no matter how poorly casinos are doing throughout the country, no matter how many times they rewrite the rules and laws in their favor, no matter what kind of damage they wreak, how many thousands of small business they … [Read more...]
What happened?
It has been several months since the disclosure of thousands of deleted emails by an aide to Boston Mayor Thomas Menino. There has been no mention of any prosecution for the apparent violation of the public records law. The aide who … [Read more...]
Boston Votes: 2009 Municipal Election
Floon Effect? Flaherty and his troops should be commended for waging a serious campaign, and their inclusion of vanquished preliminary opponent Sam Yoon as a "running mate" was an inspired move. Indeed, Team Floon helped narrow the gap in … [Read more...]
The Globe’s very odd endorsement of Tom Menino
While Menino is overly reliant on some longtime loyalists, his top officials have usually been strong figures. Yes, if by "strong figure" you mean "on a leave of absence until issues surrounding potentially criminal conduct are … [Read more...]
Why we are losing population – and what we can do about it!
On October 27, 2009 Prof. Barry Bluestone gave a pre-release presentation of the Greater Boston Housing Report Card 2009 As part of that presentation, Prof. Bluestone stated that the United States is in the midst of a third - but … [Read more...]
Councilor Connolly Goes Public on Schools
On the way to becoming a lawyer, he taught in a tough NYC school and then in a Boston charter one. He still believes in charters, not as the salvation but as proving grounds for prototypes to replicate.As well as the details of budgets, … [Read more...]
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