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
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
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
Governor Deval Patrick, coming out with an extensive reorganization of the state’s transportation apparatus, has proposed to dismantle the Turnpike as we know it and reassign its parts to the rest of the state infrastructure. In short, the plan calls for turning over the Turnpike
The history of the United States has been a series of challenges and the American people’s ability to overcome those challenges. With terrorism still a threat, the budget out of control, infrastructure crumbling, foreign relations in disarray, and an economy spiraling out of control America
Sorry, I’m late. Okay some quick bullet points. Massachusetts: John Kerry has effectively served Massachusetts over the last 24 years. He is not perfect. A Massachusetts based blog can say that and still support his reelection. Although his campaign for the presidency four years ago
It is hard to believe that all these months in the making are about to come to a final, definitive close. Alas, WMassP&I will lose one of its most cleverly titled serials. As has been common before, endorsements will be issued over a series of
Yesterday, Senator Dianne Wilkerson of the Second Suffolk district in Boston, was arrested and charged in Federal Court for bribery. The 15 year veteran of the State Senate plead not guilty to the charges. According to Boston.com, despite the indictment, Sen. Wilkerson intends to trudge
This past September, the state primary, which featured abysmal turnout, primarily due to the lack of interesting races and often the lack of challengers led to something of an upset in Boston. Senator Dianne Wilkerson, the incumbent in the Second Suffolk District, lost the primary