Boston Vying For $5 Million To Improve City Life For all of us who live in or close to a big city, here’s a provocative idea: Mayors may be in the best position to offer big solutions, innovation and new ways to deliver services. Mayors have more ways to encourage change than community organizations, than governors or even presidents. Whether you agree with that […]
Ruling shows ‘big tobacco can be taken on and beaten,’ Australia says In a decision announced Wednesday, Australia’s high court upheld the plain packaging act, which says that tobacco products must be in plain packaging without logos and bear graphic health warnings as of December 1. Richard Daynard, a professor at Northeastern University School of Law in Boston and president of the school’s Public Health Advocacy Institute, […]
Puget Sound Business Journal Institute for Systems Biology will house Northeastern’s Seattle campus Northeastern University on Tuesday announced that its Seattle branch campus will be on the ground floor of the Institute of Systems Biology headquarters building at 401 Terry Avenue N., in the city’s South Lake Union neighborhood.
Amid tight supply, Boston rents soar Rents for apartments in Boston are soaring, and a dearth of construction of less expensive apartments is making it increasingly difficult for tenants to find affordable places to live. “If I have to spend 40 or even 50 percent of my household income on rent, that means I’m going to spend less on restaurants, less […]
The Seattle Times Boston’s Northeastern University to open campus in South Lake Union Northeastern University-Seattle will offer graduate programs in 15 areas and will share a space in South Lake Union with the Institute for Systems Biology.
Boston.com Profiling reports spur call for action Reports of widespread racial profiling at Logan International Airport — and news of a federal investigation into the practice — have provoked concern and calls for change, but little surprise. “I’m a little depressed,” said Jack McDevitt, director of the Institute on Race and Justice at Northeastern University, which documented widespread racial inequities in a […]
San Francisco Chronicle U.S. giving up on overseas X-ray goal Five years after Congress set a deadline for requiring all U.S.-bound shipping containers to be X-rayed overseas for nuclear weapons, customs officials have all but given up on the goal. Customs and Border Protection officials scanned with X-ray or gamma-ray machines 473,380, or 4.1 percent, of the 11.5 million containers shipped in the fiscal year […]
Political Olympics Preview Schedules and venues have been set, formats have been selected, and competitors have begun strategizing for victory in America’s upcoming political Olympics: the 2012 presidential and vice presidential debates, now only two months away. Let us scrutinize the recent announcement of formats by the Commission on Presidential Debates for early indications about this year’s round […]
Boston’s MyBike aims to become 1st national bike repair brand Much as Zipcar changed personal car transportation using Internet software, Boston-based MyBike thinks it can leverage the web to offer a game-changing service for bicycle owners around the U.S. LeRoy Watkins, a Northeastern University finance graduate in 2004, launched MyBike in 2005 to serve as a bike rental service (with the twist that the company […]
TSA vows to act on claims of racial profiling at Logan Reports of widespread racial profiling at Logan International Airport — and news of a federal investigation into the practice — have provoked concern and calls for change, but little surprise. “I’m a little depressed,” said Jack McDevitt, director of the Institute on Race and Justice at Northeastern University, which documented widespread racial inequities in a […]
Technology Makes Cargo Scans Feasible, Flynn Says Stephen Flynn, founding co-director of the George J. Kostas Research Institute for Homeland Security at Northeastern University in Boston, talks about the potential impact of disruptive anti-terrorism measures at seaports on the worldwide supply system and the feasibility of enforcing a 2007 congressional deadline for requiring all U.S.-bound shipping containers to be X-rayed overseas for […]
Technology Makes Cargo Scans Feasible, Flynn Says Stephen Flynn, founding co-director of the George J. Kostas Research Institute for Homeland Security at Northeastern University in Boston, talks about the potential impact of disruptive anti-terrorism measures at seaports on the worldwide supply system and the feasibility of enforcing a 2007 congressional deadline for requiring all U.S.-bound shipping containers to be X-rayed overseas for […]