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Monthly Archives: December 2008

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‘Twas the Night Before the Future…

This year’s Christmas message will be fairly short. The City and the Nation face a daunting future. With our economy in convulsions and our city’s path forward undetermined, it will take great deal more than what has been passing as the solution the past couple

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Boston Beat: A Church Cracks in Boston…

The Old South Church on Boylston Street in Boston’s Back Bay recently sustained a large and deleterious crack due to construction work outside. The work being done was a renovation to the MBTA’s Copley Green Line Stop. The damage, although probably not irreversible has rocked

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Optionally Assured Destruction…

With economic calamity still flummoxing the state’s finances, State House officials have announced that a cut in local aid may be on the horizon. Although legislators will try to avoid it, cities and towns must now face the budgetary reality of cuts. This could prove