Entries tagged with Boston
Boston Sets Bold Goals
July 7, 2010
The recently announced Boston Opportunity Agenda has set specific short term and ambitious goals to increase educational attainment in the city and is holding nonprofits accountable for meeting these goals. The Agenda represents a new city-wide ambition and a major public-private partnership among the City of…
Design Museum Boston
February 26, 2010
What happens when you pair two designers over a slice of pizza with the back of a pizza box as their blank slate?
The Boston design community gets a new museum to promote local design.
But it won’t look like any other museum.
The nomadic Design Museum Boston will occupy…
When States Limit Cities
April 10, 2009
How is it possible that playing host to Sail Boston and the World Series has a negative net ROI for Boston?
Boston, with no local sales tax, is severely limited in the number of revenue sources available to it. “What would be a windfall to cities elsewhere is…
America's Favorite Cities 2008
October 28, 2008
Well, travelers favorite cities. Ranking the 25 top U.S. cities in 45 categories, 155,000 travelers (or readers of Travel and Leisure) cast their votes and here's a sampling of what they said:
While Charleston and Austin have the friendliest people, Seattle and Minneapolis/St. Paul have the brainiest. Unfortunately, LA…
Credit Crunch Hits Universities
October 2, 2008
