Red Orbit President Obama Highlights Success Of Technology-Driven TechBoston Academy On March 8, President Obama paid a visit to TechBoston Academy in Dorchester, Mass.–a technology-driven, 6th-12th grade pilot school within the Boston Public School System (BPS)–to promote the importance of education in today’s society and to highlight TechBoston as a model school for student success.
MetroWest Daily News Experts say housing costs, schools key to job creation in Massachusetts A commission charged with finding ways of creating new jobs was warned the state’s job creation will continue to lag unless Massachusetts improves the quality of its public schools and lowers the cost of housing.
A Revolution in the Streets of Boston It’s hard to see that you are in the middle of a revolution while it’s happening.
State’s home sales worst in 20 years Massachusetts home sales went into a deep freeze last month with the worst numbers in more than 20 years, according to data released yesterday.
CBS MoneyWatch The Rich Are Different: They Have Jobs And Can Pay Down Their Credit Cards Borrowing by U.S. consumers has been falling since the middle of the recession – in the aggregate, anyway. Beneath the surface, people at the high end of the income scale have been paying down their loans, but the little guy is not making any progress, and in fact is facing higher credit card balances. But […]
CNET News Privacy: Facebook’s Achilles heel The folks who run Facebook are laughing all the way to the bank. They’re making money hand over fist, and all they have to do is sit back and watch as the people who comprise their product volunteer tons of incredibly personal information. Then they sell access to that information to any advertiser or other […]
Fox 25 Hinckley may be freed The man who nearly assassinated President Ronald Reagan in 1981 may be freed after nearly 30 years in a hospital.
MetroWest Daily News Funding for public broadcasting comes under fire Should the government give your tax dollars to radio stations for programs that entertain, inform and, critics say, promote an elitist political agenda?
The Christian Science Monitor Fearing for his life, cop killer suspect demands TV coverage of surrender The death of Jamie Hood’s brother to a police bullet in 2001 and Mr. Hood’s dramatic surrender Friday in Athens, Ga., after a four-hour hostage standoff offers a provocative — and personal — timeline of rising tensions between police and street criminals in the last decade, leading to more bloodshed on the beat even as […]
Church plaza designated a landmark The city of Boston has designated the Christian Science Center plaza a historic landmark, giving it special protections from future development, including changes to its most famous feature – a 686-foot-long reflecting pool.
Cities Make Universities, Not The Other Way Around This discussion at Matt Yglesias’ blog about whether universities make cities prosperous is interesting but I think the reverse causality is more relevant: how cities help create prosperous universities.
Why do men shout at women in the street? From whistling to catcalling, and even groping, street harassment is an everyday reality for many women around the world. But now a new wave of feminist groups are organising to stop it.