Tag Archives: Self-Promotion

Rebuilding the Square

Posted on May 8, 2012 by admin

My latest for the Globe tackles a redevelopment project 50 years in the making — the rebuilding of Jackson Square, along the JP/Roxbury line. The square was cleared a half-century ago to make way for the Southwest Expressway. The doomed Expressway … Continue reading →

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Opportunity on the Line

Posted on February 21, 2012 by admin

My latest for the Globe looks at an effort to reassemble the coalition that sank the Inner Belt and the Southwest Expressway. Forty years ago, activists from Somerville to Hyde Park crossed neighborhood boundaries to stop highway construction; now, they’re coming … Continue reading →

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Putting the Road in its Place

Posted on February 14, 2012 by admin

My latest op-ed for the Globe looks at crumbling roadways around the region — the McGrath Highway, the Longfellow Bridge, Storrow Drive and the Bowker Overpass — as opportunities for reorienting infrastructure’s relationship with the city, and correcting mistakes from the 1950′s … Continue reading →

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Wasting Opportunity

Posted on January 17, 2012 by admin

My latest for the Globe looks at the proposal to turn an 8-acre block on the Orange Line into an independent minor league baseball stadium. Given the recent history of locals losing interest in minor league teams full of players outside … Continue reading →

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Anatomy of a Roadblock

Posted on January 12, 2012 by admin

My contribution to CommonWealth‘s winter issue — online over here! — focuses on a nasty development fight in Freetown, and the state agency in the middle of it all. It turns out that when an aggressive regulator operates with little … Continue reading →

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Filene’s: Call Their Bluff

Posted on January 10, 2012 by admin

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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Powah!

Posted on April 29, 2008 by admin

Wondering what to do with all that free money the government is tossing at you? Keep your coinage away from Sears (no, seriously, stay the f away from that place). Instead, stimulate the economy of your nearest newsstand and grab … Continue reading →

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Outside Job

Posted on February 24, 2008 by admin

Deval Patrick’s administration has finally hired an outside firm to evaluate the basic assumptions behind its casino gambling proposal, four months after filing legislation to legalize casino gambling, five months after initially backing the legalization of Class III gambling, and … Continue reading →

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Whoa!

Posted on February 8, 2008 by admin

Jon Keller calls King Sal an “excellent profile,” and its author a “brilliant young punk political reporter.” Love you too, Jon.

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