Archive for July, 2010

Mass Inc.’s magazine CommonWealth has a terrific interview with Andrew Sum, director of the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University. You should absolutely read the interview. I’ll include just this one brief quote in which he addresses Massachusetts’s jaw-droppingly weak job creation performance over the past two decades: We put too many of [...]

There was on accident on the westbound I-90/Massachusetts Turnpike about a mile east of the Natick exit/Route 30 on Friday July 2, 2010. We were first alerted that something was going on when a couple of unmarked State police cruisers came flying down the left lane (where they were naturally slowed down by Massholes who [...]

What was Boston’s population in 2005? That depends on when you asked the question. Last week the United States Census Bureau released its latest population estimate for cities and towns with at least 100,000 people. The estimate for Boston was 645,000, crowning a rather spectacular turnaround for the estimate of the city’s population size. The [...]