On Legislative Leadership – who do you blame?
Nobody said legislative leadership was going to be easy –the Speaker and the President cannot avoid conflict; they must confront it, resolve it, and take the blame for it. from 4th Edition of Lobbying on a Shoestring. Chapter 3 of Lobbying explores the decision making dynamic in legislative bodies from State Houses to city counsels...
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50th Anniversary of the disastrous Boston Banks Urban Renewal Group (BBURG)
We go a letter from Lew Finfer. “This is the 50th Anniversary of the disastrous to Dorchester and Mattapan program called the Boston Banks Urban Renewal Group (BBURG). This program that ran from 1968-1972 was supposed to enable African-Americans to buy homes after a century+ of housing discrimination largely prevented that. However, it instead became...
On the 50th Anniversary of Stopping a highway from cutting through Boston.
“So organizers started to do something about it. On Jan. 25, 1969 — just days after Governor Francis W. Sargent’s inauguration — the 2,000 people gathered on the State House stairs to protest the highway. The governor’s son, Francis W. “Bill” Sargent Jr., joined them. In December 1970, Sargent declared a moratorium on the highway...
Being bold – two Boston city counselors say “We are in crisis and we proposing to do something about it”
“We are in a crisis,” said City Councilor Lydia Edwards, the plan’s lead sponsor along with Councilor Kim Janey. “That we are suffering in one of the biggest booms in the history of our city is unacceptable.” In the thick of an affordable housing crisis that has taken hold across Greater Boston, city councilors have...
