Here are a few pictures my dad took last summer in the Old Country. A couple of birds were released into the wild by Nordens Ark, an organization that works to preserve and strengthen endangered species.
We can use the updated county population estimates that were released by the United States Census Bureau last week to calculate metropolitan Boston’s estimated population in 2007. A metropolitan area has an urban core of at 50,000 people and consists of the the surrounding geographic components that are linked to the core through commerce, commuting [...]
The United States Census Bureau released July 1, 2007, population estimates for counties this morning. Suffolk County, home of Boston, had an estimated population of 713,049, up from 710,139 in 2006, and almost 24,000 more people than the Census counted in the county in 2000. These are pretty dramatic upwards revisions of previous population estimates [...]
Massachusetts Speaker of the House Sal DiMasi made an interesting claim this morning in a speech to Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce. The speech was largely an attack on Governor Deval Patrick’s casino proposal and part of that attack was highlighting the Speaker’s more “sustainable” economic development proposals. Said the Speaker, according to a document [...]
As you may have noticed I have made a few changes to the site over the last couple of days. There are two primary reasons for the changes: To reduce bandwidth consumption and to make it easier for the search engines to point users to the content they’re looking for. Most of my traffic comes [...]
When Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick outlandishly claimed that his $1billion life-sciences initiative would create 250,000 new jobs I speculated that maybe the Governor meant it would create 25,000 jobs which over the span of ten years – the duration of the initiative would result in 250,000 worker-years (assuming an extreme front-loading of the creation of [...]
The New England Patriots have re-signed unrestricted free agent wide receiver Randy Moss to three-year, $27 million contract after a couple of days of increasing nervousness among fans. Moss caught 98 passes for 1,493 yards and an NFL-record 23 touchdowns last year, and then he snagged another 16 receptions for 229 yards and four touchdowns [...]
The Boston Globe‘s Sean P. Murphy has taken a close look at Governor Deval Patrick’s claim that the Governor’s casino proposal will create 30,000 construction jobs in Massachusetts. Murphy presents evidence that suggests that the proposal will at most create 20,000 construction jobs, and that’s if casino developers build three very large casinos in the [...]
