Posts Tagged ‘mayor’
Robert L. Hedlund, Senator Who Proposed Happy Hour Amendment, Calls it ‘Dead as a Doornail’
Robert L. Hedlund, Senator Who Proposed Happy Hour Amendment, Calls it ‘Dead as a Doornail.’ Perhaps realizing that it was never going to happen in Massachusetts, a state Hedlund compares to the “Mormon state” of Utah, the senator is now politicking and re-aligning his call [...]
Menino Scores! (No, Really.) – A great new program reminds me why, on the whole, Boston is lucky to have its Mayor for Life.
Tom Menino takes his fair share of heat in Boston magazine. And how could he not? When you’ve been mayor longer than anyone else in the long history of this city, there are going to be a few missteps along the way. Accordingly, we scold Menino from time to time for his micro-managing ; his [...]
Five Things to Watch in Boston’s At-Large City Council Race
Next Tuesday’s municipal election in Boston has a competitive at-large race and its outcome will provide some advance info on what to expect in the next mayor’s race. Here are 5 things to watch: 1) Is the Flaherty-Pressley Competition A Legit Thesis? The narrative for the early part of [...]
Mid-Century Modern: Preservation or New Construction? – These houses to are to new generations what the preservation and restoration of Victorians were to their parents.
Preserve? My business partner and I have a new listing coming on today in Lincoln. It’s a 1957 house designed by noted Modernist architect, Constantin Pertzhoff, modestly sized and in need of some restoration. So why is it listed for $998,800? Because it’s on nine-plus [...]
Music Review: Nirvana Won’t Let You Say ‘Oh, Never Mind…’ – WFNX’s recently unearthed bootleg of a Cambridge gig makes Cobain & Co. sound vital as ever.
Ever since Bob Dylan came out with the landmark box set, Biograph , in September of 1985, autumn has been the big season for these behemoth career summaries — after all, what stuffs a stocking better than, say, a $180 Pink Floyd box set ? Nothing warms up the holidays like gathering the family [...]
Testing Menino’s Business Resource Center, Part III
My last two blog posts ( here and here ) have provided some ideas about some key aspects of the Mayor’s initiative to reform the permitting process. If we can get the physical layout right, the organizational structure right, and the culture right, the last step is to build in accountability [...]
UMass Football Goes Big… Err, to the MAC Anyway
UMass is hitting the big time. In case you missed the news — which was hard to do if you picked up a Herald yesterday— the state university in Amherst plans to jump its football team up to the Division 1A level (officially called the Football Bowl Subdivision), starting in the 2012 season. [...]
Boston’s Bike News Bonanza
Today could be a huge day for the Boston bicycling community with some kind of mysterious bike-related announcement due from Mayor Tom Menino. The news is hush-hush and won't be revealed until 1:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. at City Hall Plaza. Food, including Boloco burritos, is available. According to [...]
No High Hopes for Menino’s New BRA Chief
By: Rachel Slade In appointing Peter Meade as the new BRA director , Mayor Menino exposes his deeply cynical soul. How a city gets shaped according to Menino has less to do with expertise, talent, and desire, and much more to do with an all-powerful central agency that grants or withholds [...]
Listen Up! Record Store Day Q&A
By: Anne Vickman The third Saturday of the month is rapidly approaching, which means the fourth annual Record Store Day is nigh! This weekend, vinylphiles and tunehounds alike will forsake sleeping in and pancakes at the diner for a chance to purchase rare and limited release records as soon as [...]
