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Tag Archives: Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce
Boston 2024 Olympic bid: we could – but should we?
Yesterday, the city of Rome included itself among the potential hosts for the 2024 summer Olympics. Now, where would you rather be that August – Boston or Rome? Italian Premier Matteo Renzi said, “it’s unacceptable not to try.” Boston’s self-appointed elite apparently feel that way. Today, … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized
Tagged Annual HUBweek festival, Big Dig Overruns, Bob Kraft, Boston 2024 Organizing Committee, Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, host city debt, Joe Moakley, London Olympics, Mayor Marty Walsh, Mayor Tom Menino, New England Revolution, NoBostonOlympics, Olympic Stadium, Premier Matteo Renzi, Suffolk Construction John Fish, summer Olympics bid, Ted Kennedy, Tip O'Neill, United States Olympics Committee
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From Selma to Ferguson to Boston
It’s hard for millennials to imagine that not so long ago, blacks, who Constitutionally had the right to vote since 1870, were routinely blocked from exercising that right. But antagonistic county commissioners and viciously contrived regulatory barriers in the South routinely denied … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Politics
Tagged 1965 March Selma to Montgomery, Andrew Young, Ava DuVernay, Carmen Fields, Ferguson grand jury, George Wallace, Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, Hosea Williams, Jeffrey Brown, John Lewis, Judge Frank Johnson, LBJ, LBJ Voting Rights Act, Liz Walker, Martin Luther King, Marty Walsh, Mivie Selma, Ray Flynn, Staten Island killing
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Snake eyes for Coakley on casino referendum
Question for gubernatorial candidate Martha Coakley: if you knew that the legitimacy of the casino repeal referendum would end up at the Supreme Judicial Court regardless of how you decided on its constitutionality and you’re supposedly fine with its being on the … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged Commonwealth Magazine, compulsive gambling, Deval Patrick, gambling addiction, gambling revenues, Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, local aid revenues, Martha Coakley loses on referendum issue, scratch tickets, SJC ruling on casino repeal, state lottery, Steve Grossman
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Tim Murray makes cool career move
Lieutenant Tim Murray is one lucky dude. You might say he has escaped with his life. The affable former three-term mayor of Worcester has never been able to elude the bad karma surrounding his mysterious early morning car accident in … Continue reading
Grossman, DeLeo speak reality to Patrick’s dreams
Governor Patrick’s hopes for Massachusetts, delivered in his state-of-the-state address in January were big-picture, visionary, limitless in their possibilities – especially in transportation, education and tax reform. They were so big, in fact, they took your breath away. His proposals focused on increasing income … Continue reading
Coakley top executive material
Attorney General Martha Coakley told a Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce breakfast Wednesday that government’s role is not to pick business winners and losers but to create a competitive environment conducive to the development of new ideas and technological innovation. … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized
Tagged Evergreen, Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, Martha Coakley, Solyndra
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