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Paris is the capital of France, so they get the shiny baubles. France also built Soviet-style high rise apartment ghettos outside of Paris to keep the dark-skinned riff-raff out of their beautiful city. Yeah - let's copy them. Just sayin.' Before you go off on the wonderful things they do in...

No. Other than that, yeah.

I just drove by the new/old charter school building on Hyde Park ave tonight. It's an old machine tool factory, and it's nice that they re-used it. Another old industrial building down Hyde Park ave towards Walcott sq was just torn down. I have to say it was no beauty. They're cleaning up the...

Whether you can 'see' a problem or not is irrelevant. Parking is important to businesses. Take the parking lot away from the Pleasant and they'd be out of business in a year. This is a simple, observable fact - the less convenient the parking, the less chance the business will thrive.

Now that we're spending too much money, we have to raise taxes? :confused: The state highway system didn't get into the maintenance mess it's in overnight. Why wasn't the money spent when it was needed, maintaining roads and bridges? That would be because politicians don't get elected for...

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Why would you want to maintain old stuff when you can take credit for building new stuff?

That's exactly what's needed. Just like copy shops are needed. And sandwich shops. And post offices. They all serve people, and people are attracted to prime real estate. Then again, you could just sell all the prime real estate to developers, and let them put up high end hotels. Because prime...

Rent control is just me telling you that you (and not other citizens) have to give to the charity of my choice - at the end of a gun barrel. If there is a public good in making low cost housing available, why should this or that property owner bear the cost of providing it? Would you support...

Re: Storm surge in Boston F-Line covered it pretty well. I'd add that Sandy was not a 'Frankenstorm.' It was remarkably large in area, but not particularly strong. By the time it made landfall, it was dropping below Hurricane status. The flooding in New York was a function of the geometry of...

New Haven? Think Grove Hal/Frankllin Field with an Ivy League campus dumped in the middle. If you want a college town entertainment scene, move to a college town. Seriously. In case you didn't know, people live in the Downtown Crossing district now. The population of the former downtown...

The Pill works.

Do you do stand-up?

Fares should be raised on the T. That way, vehicles wouldn't be overcrowded, and you could always get a seat. The market should decide the best fare. More demand, like at rush hour, higher prices.

With casinos in state, money stops bleeding across the border. Money spent out of state is pure loss. Jobs are created. And by the way - the same people who go to Foxwoods buy scratch tickets - write it down. And this: "Who makes up the difference? The taxpayers do... " So in other words...

The theatre district has late night clubs for young people. How's that working out? The fact that someone isn't stabbed or shot there every week is more the luck of the draw than anything else. Please note - Boston is tiny. All of downtown Boston could just about fit inside Central Park. That...

Ah yes - each precious snowflake should be given veto power over all building. Harvard will be there long after the 'long-time' resident is gone. If there were community meetings back in the day, Harvard Yard would still be an orchard.

Developers have no responsibility to put their own money at risk to fill in vacant lots to attract law-abiding citizens to the neighborhood. The city put taxpayer money into police headquarters in an effort to do that very thing, and it failed. About a week ago, a guy was found shot a couple...

Hear that giant sucking sound? that's the sound of Massachusetts money going down the Connecticut casino drain. You're against gambling? Then shut down the Mass lottery - it's more regressive than casinos. Just don't take local aid to your city or town and then say you're against gambling.

Here's the area in 1884. The development of brick row houses was just an accident of who owned the land. There were similar South End-type housing built in Jamaica Plain. Remember - no zoning, no community meetings, no BRA/City Hall leaning on you. Just whatever the developer thought would make...