Archive for 2009

A couple of months ago we snapped the photos below of Boston sports radio station WBZ-FM 98.5 The Sports Hub’s street team heading west on the Massachusetts Turnpike. The photographer tells me the driver in one of the vehicles laughed at the attention and also that there were hot chicks in them (she didn’t exactly [...]

In 2006 Massachusetts progressives carried a sub-prime mortgage lender to victory in the state’s gubernatorial election, essentially heralding the collapse of the mortgage bubble. One wonders what disaster their choice of candidate in the senate race will foretell?

The payroll and employment report from Bureau of Labor Statistics for November 2009 suggest that the US economy is entering a so-called V-shaped recovery, rather than a slower and more painful U- or W-shaped one.
Not only were only 11,000 jobs lost last month, the figure for October was revised upwards. Initial unemployment claims are showing [...]

[12/18 update: The first change in the aftermath of the birth of WBZ-FM was pretty dull. AM-890, Boston's ESPN Radio station, went silent in October and switched to a Spanish-language music format on December 3. Nothing yet has happened with the stronger signals of WEEI or WRKO.]
Life can get boring if one demands a plethora [...]

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
Nauset-Providencetown [...]

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 [...]

The New England Patriots offensive linemen in 2009 and the different combinations of starters the team uses:
New England Patriots starting offensive linemen by game in 2009

Week
Left Tackle
Left Guard
Center
Right Guard
Right Tackle

1 vs Buffalo Bills
Matt Light
Logan Mankins
Dan Koppen
Stephen Neal
Nick Kaczur

2 @ New York Jets

3 vs Atlanta Falcons

4 vs Baltimore Ravens

5 @ Denver Broncos

6 vs Tennessee Titans
Sebastian Vollmer

7 [...]