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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…

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…

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…

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…

Boston University President Robert A. Brown has called for an immediate hiring freeze and a moratorium on all construction projects that are not already underway in a clear sign that the nation's credit and banking crisis has penetrated the walls of academia.

Writing in today's Boston Globe, James A. Peyser, a partner with NewSchools Venture Fund, questions why so many talented educators, specifically those who have founded and led wildly successful charter schools, are leaving Boston for New York. He points out that while the city would be up in…