The New York Times reports on the case of a pedestrian arrested for — well, not being enough of a pedestrian: According to court documents, a man named Matthew Jones […]
Urban Affairs
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Neighborhood anchors face extinction
Entrepreneur.com has an interesting list of the 10 Businesses Facing Extinction in 10 Years. No surprise that newspapers and pay phones are on there, but a few may be worrisome […]
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Homing in on the problem
phil mangano, former manager of hippie musical acts of the 1960s and volunteer at a downtown Boston soup kitchen, would seem one of the least likely Bay Staters to find […]
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Historian Thomas O’Connor on making Boston the Athens of America
Thomas O’Connor has been telling Boston’s story for more than three decades. His 1976 book, Bibles, Brahmins, and Bosses, based on a series of lectures delivered at the Boston Public […]
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Charles Euchner leaves big shoes to fill at the Rappaport Institute
It may have been a native son of Cambridge who proclaimed all politics is local, but that has not always seemed the guiding principle at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. […]
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An unsentimental look at teen parents in Pittsfield
Growing Up FastBy Joanna LipperPicador, New York, 432 pages. The Berkshires, or “America’s premier cultural resort,” as the region is referred to by the local Chamber of Commerce, is also […]
