Recent content by N.starluna

Out of curiosity Does anyone know if there are any memorials here in Boston for Pearl Harbor? I'm nursing an interest in the use and placement of different types of memorials.

Re: Movie Studios: Plymouth & Weymouth I agree with you there. It would certainly have less traffic impact than most of the proposals for redevelopment there. Certainly better for the community than a casino or slots.

Re: Movie Studios: Plymouth & Weymouth As an migrant from L.A. and current East Boston resident, I could make one other note of caution about bringing in movie studios to Massachusetts: filmmaking can be incredible disruptive to the daily lives of regular people. In L.A., I can't tell you how...

Re: Movie Studios: Plymouth & Weymouth I second this concern. The business literature has found that tax breaks are not the most important component in locational decisionmaking for most corporations. The economic literature has also found that any business that makes a locational decision...

MGL c.151B ?4(7)'s clarification of age is to allow age restrictions for elderly housing development projects. In the definitions section of this statute, the age of concern are those over 40. What this subsection effectively says is that a person between the age of 40 and 55 (or 62) cannot...

Students are not a legally protected class. There have been ordinances in college towns that explicitly target college students and those have been upheld by the federal courts - or rather the courts have declined to review them. Either way, the outcome is the same, the ordinance is...