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Wyman Street curb cut opponent responds
By admin
Published: January 30, 2012
An Avon Hill Street resident hopes to see more quotes from opponents in the peculiar war over a fourth curb cut in a cul-de-sac.
Where Occupy can go from here: to Spare Change
By Marc Levy
Published: December 9, 2011
With an eviction notice hanging for Occupy Boston’s Camp Dewey and the future of the movement in flux, here’s a suggestion for a way forward that could benefit literally everyone.
Deng transforms China and, on Monday, Toscanini’s ice cream
By Marc Levy
Published: December 4, 2011
The lifetimes of Deng Xiaoping and Toscanini overlapped for more than a half-century, but it’s a good bet they never met until now, as Toscanini’s ice cream hosts Harvard’s Ezra Vogel on Monday for a signing of his new Deng biography.
Child labor laws outmoded, Gingrich says, but Occupy gets the press
By Marc Levy
Published: November 21, 2011
The antics of the Occupy movement apparently crowds out a Republican suggestion to rethink child labor laws.
Buchanan: Keep Americans out of America!
By Marc Levy
Published: October 24, 2011
Pat Buchanan’s sad, racist book “Suicide of a Superpower” has trouble understanding history, let alone demographics or politics.
King Open School makes it to Salon; Wolf makes it to Occupy Boston
By Marc Levy
Published: October 18, 2011
A King Open School field trip to Occupy Boston’s base at Camp Dewey, written about here Monday, made it to the big time Tuesday in a salon.com piece called “Occupy the playground.”
Why Occupy Boston really made the move that drew arrests
By Marc Levy
Published: October 17, 2011
The seventh- and eighth-graders of Cambridge’s King Open School visiting Occupy Boston’s Camp Dewey to see, as they say, what democracy looks like. It looks extremely crowded — and it probably doesn’t have to.
Potentially senile Howie Carr jeers Cambridge arrests for Occupy Boston
By Marc Levy
Published: October 16, 2011
If it has a point at all, a recent Howie Carr column about Cantabrigians getting arrested with Occupy Boston last week is extraordinarily confusing — in fact, utterly nonsensical.
Occupy Wall Street’s redefining triumph
By Marc Levy
Published: October 11, 2011
Occupy Wall Street (and Occupy Boston) have changed our language — just as the tea party did a couple of years ago. Will Occupy be able to change our politics as well?
Rich generously agree to pay more taxes (with added rights)
By Marc Levy
Published: October 10, 2011
A few of the richest folks in America might agree with Warren Buffett to pony up more in taxes, Salon says, but only if the government can assure them it’ll be spent right! Do the rich get that right too?