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Fear of reprisal. If the speaker is challenged, upon losing the challenger is punished, relegated with bad committee assignments, has legislation shelved and is generally ostracized. More important, that means the challenger's district will get much less state aid if any at all. They didn't...

I totally agree with JeffDowntown's Post. I'd add the legislature is almost all Dems, but it is nowhere near unified by shared ideology. For every firebrand progressive Cambridge Rep D, there's a greedy DINO from a monied enclave, or a crypto-Trumpian D somewhere Westawoostah. So, there are many...

Funny, but still a personal jab, which is exactly what I’m talking about. No personal responsibility, just lashing out at those who disagree. I found that the Venn Diagram of People who are Fucking Up The World and golf enthusiasts is a pretty solid overlap. I also find that they usually don’t...

Private golf courses... Tax them. Tax them hard, Fine them big and hard for dumping bulk phosphorus and pesticides into our local waterways (The Charles especially). Golf is water pollution. Bill them for the copious amount of water they take and return as poison. Restore the wetlands they...

Reminds me of this:

I want to open a dispensary to attend to all the new Chelsea < > West Station passengers. Gonna call it VASSMASSGRASS. Other ideas welcome.

Really cool find. I'm guessing this is the Union Church on Rutland and Columbus. Gotta say... looks much nicer now. I realize that it must have been late fall or early spring, but there is so much more going on there now! It makes me wonder about where the families who live in those buildings...

Don't scratch the paint. You'll see what's underneath that veneer of progress. "For the majority of his time in Qatar, Hari said he felt sad. He would watch planes take off during his six months tending the airport gardens and question why he was in the country. But he had paid 90,000 Nepali...

Sick burn. I'm amazed I never heard that one before. So on point!

Forgot about the zero. Good point. 3 degrees would have been adequate.

<<cough cough>>Thwaite's Glacier <<cough cough>>

Can anyone really plagiarize a pie in the sky recipe? http://archboston.com/community/threads/design-a-better-fort-point-channel.5940/post-415587

I’m saying 4 because future Boston will need it. Also the phrase “You only get to go to the well once” comes up in political speak often enough to give me reason to bake it in to any planning, realistic or otherwise.

In my dream scenario where the 4 tunnel NSRL is complete, the dead head parking at North Station gives way to a new neighborhood, that rail bridge is open to local traffic and that walkway is an at grade connection from the North End to the Esplanade. However, as with most of our incomplete...

Signature Aviation, a private FBO, is right there. Money buys quick access. This is life. Whether it was planned that way can be debated. Design: A tilt on 15/33 (perhaps 12/30) would have dodged that gorgeous park. Alternately, the runway could have been extended further out, but instead the...

Yep. Learned about the Wood Island teardown a few years ago. All so some munnybros can park their private jets next to their own alternate runway. May the ghost of Frederick Law Olmsted haunt each and every complicit Massport board member who does not make amends.

I wonder if this definition applies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperart_Thomasson

So, I guess... The South Shore, Anyone North or Northwest of town, Downtown and the Financial district, and South Boston Waterfront riders, ...don't get to play with your trains? And I'm assuming no stops at any of the four places it has to go under the Green Line. Nah. NSRL as designed...

Soooo, add transit and new housing near three universities = Profit? Crazy talk!

Just say it’s a life-sciences bridge and it will get unquestioned approval and and copious investment.