Fifty-nine days into a new term, we enter the most challenging of seasons. It’s budget time in Boston. Typically, the decisions we make in the next few months set us up for the next year. This is no ordinary term, and no ordinary time. I’ve come here to talk about decisions that will position us […]
Thomas Menino
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Argument
In February, 1.5 million people went to New York City to see the 16-day public art project, “The Gates.” I asked my economic team to study what the fiscal impact of a Gates-like public art project would be if held here instead of New York. My team came up with some troubling numbers. If 90,000 […]