Puns Ltd.

By Marc Levy

Published: September 28, 2005

Dunno when it happened, but the venerable pharmacy on Huron Avenue has closed. That means Cambridge has lost its two best unintentionally funny business names. First the city lost the Long Funeral Service. Now it’s lacking the sign telling people “Huron Drugs.”

Cambridge freezes tax rate

By Marc Levy

Published: September 27, 2005

Cambridge homeowners can relax. Last night’s unanimous city council vote sends to the state Department of Revenue a plan that freezes or reverses most city property tax rates — a needed salve after last year’s brutal revaluation. Under the city manager’s plan, $10 million of the city’s free cash will be used to pay for [...]

The dangers of small government

By Marc Levy

Published: September 14, 2005

The recovery from Hurricane Katrina is almost universally a horror. The thing that comes closest to even grim fun is watching the Bush administration and its ideological toughs get stuck in what they were punching at: the tar baby of federal responsibility. The more they struggle, the more they get caught up in it. So [...]

Across the river

By Marc Levy

Published: September 1, 2005

Having been in love with Boston during my time at Emerson College, I’d stuck close, eschewing even a semester abroad in Europe. By the end of the four years, during which Charles Stuart’s murderous lies revealed a readiness to fear and humiliate black males, Southie kept reeling from busing tensions and reverberations hit when Rodney [...]