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A river ferry on the Charles is problematic for reasons discussed upthread. There is some potential for a Mystic River service, though. Setting that side, it's not like there aren't several ferries operated on the inner and outer harbor. It's definitely not as significant a thing as it is in...

And even to the extent that they tried for a faux 18th century style, they only achieved that as a background/infill sort of look. There is nothing remarkable about what is there, and what little might be seen as such is artificial anyway.

I'm pretty sure the Dugout is also in a BU owned building. Regardless, it's certainly in the heart of the campus.

Could that be a chicken and egg question, though? Might cities with less expensive housing (for multiple, complex reasons), not bother with income restricted housing because they don't need it? Also, I'm not sure we really want to use places like Dallas as the model. Do we really want lower...

I mean, it's kind of implied, don't you think? More SPED students means more cost. The population of SPED students in Boston is growing, therefore the costs are growing.

You could be right, and I might be too cynical. But the question rests somewhat on who's money they are spending. If it is indeed their own, then earnest but naïve is perhaps correct. But if they are seeking investors, then I will again suggest they are trying to con those investors.

Much better than the suburban garbage this development has offered up so far.

It wasn't your fault -- Dave O'Brien was already talking about it before the 6th inning, just as he jinxed Brayan Bello on Saturday.

I've made similar statements in the various social media discussions otherwise filled with the type of comments @Koopzilla24 mentions. Most people brush that off as either incorrect, irrelevant (because they have an inaccurate idea of how long the express bus takes), or solvable. One guy I saw...

Yeah, that's definitely different. They go for a monthly Friday night ride in which they take lanes as a form of visible protest to say that bike riders are here, this road belongs to us. I'm supportive of the concept, but it's definitely not about establishing specific routes for visibility of...

I disagreed with your statement. Something tells me irony is not a familiar word to you.

Nobody has said that about these tanks. People have suggested that because some of us would like to find a way to preserve a smokestack, we therefore militantly want to preserve every bit of Everett's industrial past. That's a strawman and should be beneath the kind of discourse this forum deserves.

I guess people are having their fun on the smokestack thing, but I would think even if you don't like them, you can at least see there is a difference between a highly visible, masonry tower and a squat, metal tank that is all but invisible to 99% of people passing through the general area.

Would love to see that truncated to Everett Docklands, with the words innovation and district replaced by light and rail.

Yes, that's a concern, although it could very well be that the crowding would be a bit less intense if it's open every day, all year. Right now, people view Sundays on Newbury as a special treat, but if you spread that out across the entire week, the crowd will spread out, too. The other...

I have the perfect solution -- permanently ban cars from Newbury St. I bet Brian McGrory would love that idea.

Yeah, he completely misses the point, even though he does identify midway through that the real issue is Uber/Amazon/Food delivery services.

I didn't do the topic nearly enough justice, and I agree with @Stlin that it's not corruption so much as a system designed to deliver certain big results (eg the annual budget) but can get messy on the finer details.

The leadership in each chamber controls committee assignment, votes, etc. The legislative process involves horse trading among legislators and kowtowing to the Speaker or Senate President as the case may be. I mean, it's not something described in the Commonwealth's constitution or anything like...

Again, it is the system, more so than the constituent parts. The Speaker and Senate President are too powerful, at the expense of the other 198 legislators. To push against that would mean giving up all power and leverage for any individual legislator. I guess it's a question of whether they can...