Boston

An interesting nugget from the student poverty rate for school districts in Massachusetts that I posted yesterday: Boston’s 2008 population is listed as 625,000, about 12,000-16,000 more than the usual Federal population estimates for the city, and about 35,000 more than in 2000, yet less than the 630,000 that City Hall claims in a challenge [...]

Last week the United States Census Bureau released student poverty rates for school districts in the United States. Below are the numbers for school districts in Massachusetts. You can view and order the statistics for districts in all states here.
To learn more about the student poverty rate read the post on the 2007 data.

#
District
Population
Students
Poverty
Rate

1
Medfield
12,454
3,044
46
1.51%

2
Norfolk
10,614
1,272
20
1.57%

3
Southborough
9,177
1,513
25
1.65%

4
Hopkinton
13,492
3,036
53
1.75%

5
Westford
20,982
4,670
82
1.76%

6
Needham
28,899
5,358
100
1.87%

7
Richmond
1,538
157
3
1.91%

8
Westwood
14,325
2,789
56
2.01%

9
Northboro-Southboro
23,822
1,044
21
2.01%

10
Harvard
6,251
1,194
24
2.01%

11
Wayland
13,244
2,769
57
2.06%

12
Northborough
14,645
2,272
47
2.07%

13
Boxford
8,064
1,105
23
2.08%

14
Boylston
4,189
429
9
2.1%

15
Acton
20,554
2,660
58
2.18%

16
Topsfield
6,252
780
17
2.18%

17
Wellesley
27,445
4,668
105
2.25%

18
Sherborn
4,246
512
12
2.34%

19
Acton-Boxborough
25,475
2,139
50
2.34%

20
Franklin
29,997
6,119
147
2.4%

#
District
Population
Students
Poverty
Rate

21
Sudbury
17,026
3,001
72
2.4%

22
Concord-Carlisle
21,948
1,079
26
2.41%

23
Duxbury
14,828
3,031
75
2.47%

24
Dover
5,640
713
18
2.52%

25
Lincoln-Sudbury
25,170
1,259
32
2.54%

26
Masconomet
22,199
1,726
45
2.61%

27
Lexington
30,688
6,158
162
2.63%

28
Longmeadow
15,791
2,907
78
2.68%

29
Nashoba
16,972
3,210
86
2.68%

30
Reading
23,969
4,447
120
2.7%

31
Bedford
12,733
2,089
57
2.73%

32
Norwell
10,162
1,970
54
2.74%

33
Edgartown
3,915
365
10
2.74%

34
King Philip
29,121
2,155
59
2.74%

35
Lincoln
8,144
1,327
37
2.79%

36
Medway
12,632
2,865
80
2.79%

37
Carlisle
4,769
824
23
2.79%

38
Hopedale
6,173
1,070
30
2.8%

39
Winchester
21,038
3,742
105
2.81%

40
Holliston
13,952
3,062
86
2.81%

#
District
Population
Students
Poverty
Rate

41
Groton-Dunstable
12,512
2,870
81
2.82%

42
Weston
11,595
2,376
68
2.86%

43
Westborough
18,809
3,643
105
2.88%

44
Hingham
20,691
3,803
110
2.89%

45
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A couple of weeks ago the United States Census Bureau released results from the 2008 American Community Survey. The survey results suggest that Boston had a majority-white population in 2008. Ad the tables below illustrate Boston’s population remains about half white, half non-white, as the case has been for several years.
White means white alone not [...]

I took a stroll down Newbury Street in Back Bay in Boston the day before Independence Day. It was a beautiful day and Newbury Street was the bustling happening street one would expect it be, but there were also rather sad signs of the recession stumbling through. Blow are pictures of a few storefronts between [...]

A picture of a Target Assets Protections tricycle personnel carrier at the Target store in Watertown. I don’t know whether it’s a souped up pimped Segway or some kind of electric vehicle. I have to say it’s more stylish than the plain vanilla segways that mall cops ride. Target wins - again.

Peacuddy’s Cafe & Bakery in Melrose - a rather pleasant town north of Boston - is a terrific little place to have a cup of coffee and something to eat (Peacuddy’s serves Rao’s so you know the coffee is good). They have great cookies, too.

Massachusetts instituted universal health care in 2006 which has led to longer wait times to see a doctor according to survey that Boston Globe reports on today. The promise of universal health care is that it will reduce cost by expanding preventative care to a larger share of population. Reality is of course different:
“If someone [...]

Going to the ball game
leaving work early
sitting in a back up
stuck on Storrow Drive
Get honked at
Get yelled at
Get cut off
price gouged
Get blocked in
Get ticketed
I tell you, fans, it’s harder than it looks
it’s a long way to Fenway Park when Boston Red Sox are home

Would it have killed the Boston Globe’s Maria Sachetti to interview an American whose been hurt or had a relative killed by an illegal alien in an auto accident? Does she only interview people who are provided to her by amnesty advocates? Why didn’t she define what constitutes a “hard-core” crime so the rest of [...]