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Tag Archives: Boston Globe
It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Parsons Brinckerhoff Edition)
From Thursday’s Boston Globe: Big Dig firm to help run T project Board initially leery of hiring company; will aid MBTA on locomotive deal Parsons Brinckerhoff is back! The folks who gave you shoddy Big Dig construction, massive cost overruns, … Continue reading
It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Howard Bryant Edition)
The hardworking staff has met author/ESPN senior writer/former Boston Herald columnist Howard Bryant on several occasions, and he always struck us as a decent, thoughtful, accomplished journalist. So it was distressing to learn of his arrest this past weekend for … Continue reading
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Tagged assault and battery, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Buz Eisenberg, ESPN, Howard Bryant, SportsLog, Veronique Bryant
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When A Society Forgets Its Own Clichés . . .
. . . it’s just plain sad. But that, apparently, is what’s happening in America these days. From our Mangled Phrases desk: In Saturday’s Boston Herald, Hillary Chabot reported that former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney is “under new fire from … Continue reading
George Regan’s Nuremberg Defense
Saturday’s Boston Globe reports that trendoid theater-district nightclub Cure Lounge has “agreed to apologize publicly, pay a $30,000 fine, and have its staff attend antidiscrimination training for closing the club on a Saturday night because a significant number of black … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Cure Lounge, George Regan, Nuremberg Defense, Regan Communications
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Doug Rubin Thinks You’re An Idiot
From Thursday’s Boston Globe: Ex-Patrick aide now lobbyist for gambling firm Doug Rubin, a former close political adviser to Governor Deval Patrick and the state treasurer, has registered as a Beacon Hill lobbyist for GTech Corp., the gambling giant that … Continue reading
Lies, Damned Lies And Statistics (Public Sector Compensation Edition)
Very passionate op-ed in Wednesday’s Boston Globe by local labor union exec Mark Erlich about the public-sector-union dustup kick started in Wisconsin: Wisconsin is only the most dramatic site of a broader strategy of absolving Wall Street and scapegoating public … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Ferguson, Boston Globe, Mark Erlich, public sector compensation, Weekly Standard
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It’s Good To Live In A Three-Daily Town (BRA Edition)
Real estate development in Boston is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you’re gonna get . . . approved. (Although Boston Mayor-for-Life Tom Menino does. Just ask Don Chiafaro.) Regardless, there is some real estate activity underway … Continue reading
Not Everyone Mad About ‘Mad Men’
From the Sunday Boston Globe Ideas section: Everybody loves “Mad Men” — except, apparently, Daniel Mendelsohn, a distinguished translator and critic who writes for The New York Review of Books. In a smart and scathing review of the show, Mendelsohn … Continue reading
The Late James Spruill Obituary
James Spruill, celebrated actor and Boston University theater professor, died December 31, 2010 of pancreatic cancer at age 73. At the time, his passing was noted locally only by a Boston University press release and a BU Today feature shortly … Continue reading
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Tagged Al Pacino, Boston Globe, BU Today, James Spruill, Morgan Freeman, New African Company, Robert Patton-Spruill
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