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There are no other issues. This is the issue.
/0 Comments/in Better Government, Blog, News, Related Education Blogs /by Liam DayAt a critical moment in The Verdict perhaps the best Boston movie ever made (considerably better, anyway, than the wildly overrated The Departed), Paul Newman’s character, a Boston defense attorney, is advised by his mentor (played by the incomparable Jack Warden, who, as you movie buffs out there may know, played the grandfather in one of the all time great cheesy movies, Problem Child) that there will be other cases. In response, Newman repeats over and over, more to himself than to Jack Warden, that “There are no other cases. This is the case. There are no other cases. This is the case.” I was reminded of this scene this morning reading Ed Moscovitch’s op-ed in the Boston Herald, Soaring […]
46 years ago and still true
/0 Comments/in Blog, Economic Opportunity, Housing /by Scott W. Graves and Micaela DawsonJane Jacobs was the maven of public input, but she is also in many respects a common sense proponent of organic, private market growth in our cities. Try this on for size, from The Death and life of Great American Cities, published in 1961 when Robert Moses still held the marionette of New York in his hands: There is a wistful myth that if only we had enough money to spend — the figure is usually put at a hundred billion dollars — we could wipe out all our slums in ten years, reverse the decay in the great, dull, gray belts that were yesterday’s and day-before yester-day’s suburbs, anchor the wandering middle class and its wandering tax money, and […]
Who said this?
/0 Comments/in Better Government, Blog, Blog: Better Government, Economic Opportunity, News /byCould, for instance, more services be privatized? Could state and local workers’ benefits be more closely aligned with those in the private sector? Give up? The lead editorial in today’s Boston Globe!!! Be still my beatin’ heart.
Ed Muskie called
/0 Comments/in Blog, Blog: Better Government, News /by…and he’s wondering why he loses the New Hampshire primary while it appears that Mitt Romney is trying to win Iowa and New Hampshire with the same tactic. A tip of the pen to Adam Reilly of the Phoenix for pointing this out, and recalling a previous teary moment from the candidate.
Welcome back, Princess Leia
/0 Comments/in Blog, Blog: Better Government, News /byFor the small (but highly vocal) group of readers of this blog interested in Ukrainian affairs, we salute Yulia Tymoshenko’s return to the premiership of the country. We look forward to a stable government free of corruption and backstabbing!! Did you not get the headline reference? The PM’s signature is her braided hair, first popularized by Carrie Fisher.