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Tag Archives: Boston City Council
Filene’s: Call Their Bluff
My latest for the Globe looks at the recent noise emanating from City Hall about using a Suffolk Downs casino to pressure Vornado into filling its Filene’s pit. The problem with these threats coming from City Hall is, there’s no way … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston City Council, Boston Globe, Casinos, Mayor Menino, Real Estate, Self-Promotion
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The Hill and the Hall Week in Review
(Cross-posted, belatedly, from Boston Daily) Let’s start by picking on Hizzoner. Nothing gets the natives riled up like parking tickets, so Mayor Tom Menino’s $2.42 billion FY09 budget, which includes $13 million in new parking fines, is sure to be … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston City Council, Boston Magazine, Idle Speculation, Mayor Menino
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The Hill and the Hall Week in Review
(Cross-posted, per usual, from Boston Daily) We hear that Governor Deval Patrick’s budget priorities are in trouble. That’s not any great surprise. The House and Senate took most of the governor’s recommendations and tossed them in the trash last year, … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston City Council, Boston Magazine, Dancing, Deval Patrick, Governor's Council
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The Hill and the Hall Week in Review
(Cross-posted from Boston Daily) We may be watching the balance of power tip on Beacon Hill. While Gov. Deval Patrick and House Speaker Sal DiMasi go back and forth about casinos and taxes—and whether or not they’re going back and … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston City Council, Boston Magazine, Casinos, Deval Patrick, Idle Speculation, Therese Murray
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The Hill and the Hall Week in Review
(Cross-posted from Boston Daily) Word broke early this week that Governor Deval Patrick’s casino bill was dead. House Dean David Flynn told the Taunton Gazette, “The casino bill isn’t going anywhere. I find very little support for it from members … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston City Council, Casinos, Deval Patrick, John Connolly, Sal DiMasi
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The Hill and the Hall Week in Review
(Cross-posted from Boston Daily) The most talked-about man on Beacon Hill continued to be widely talked about this week, as news that Speaker Sal DiMasi has been playing golf with a decades-old friend while not playing golf with a guy … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston City Council, Boston Magazine, Casinos, Deval Patrick, Mayor Menino, Sal DiMasi
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All the Attendant Evils of a Bad Slum
I spent most of yesterday in the BPL, dodging sleepy homeless people and researching a BoMag piece on Boylston Street‘s weird place in the city’s architectural bureaucracy. Half of it is part of the Back Bay Architectural District, and subject … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston City Council, Boston Magazine, Slums, Urban Renewal
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The Hill and the Hall Week in Review
(Cross-posted to Boston Daily) Mitt Romney‘s campaign for president has ended. Who’ll we make fun of now? It was, by all accounts, a bizarre scene at City Hall on Wednesday when the Boston firefighters union met with members of the … Continue reading