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Archive for April, 2008
Care to place a bet on first-quarter GDP, scheduled for release tomorrow?
From Wikipedia:
In macroeconomics, a recession is a decline in a country’s real gross domestic product (GDP), or negative real economic growth, for two or more successive quarters of a year.
In the US, the judgment of the business-cycle dating committee of the National Bureau of [...]
04/29/08 |
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From yesterday’s Globe:
Vandals tore up 18 new trees that had been planted last week in a playground in an industrial corner of Roxbury.
A dog walker found the red maples and white swamp oaks this morning lying on the ground at the Clifford Playground. The 4- to 8-foot tall saplings were in a grove of 50 [...]
04/29/08 |
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The Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz profiles the Boston Herald in a column in yesterday’s paper.
[The] paper is hurting, its daily circulation having shrunk to 203,000 (compared with 384,000 for the Boston Globe), and just 113,000 on Sunday. [It is] down to a scrappy band of 10 city reporters, beyond those in the features, business and [...]
04/29/08 |
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Sour grapes or spot-on criticism?
From the Globe:
From projects as small as a park playground, to visions as grand as a new City Hall on the South Boston waterfront, [Mayor Thomas] Menino has showered audiences with commitments and promises since his election in 1993. He has delivered on many, but not all …
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04/29/08 |
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Sounds as though more residential housing may soon rise around Fenway Park.
An automotive service center, that has been a fixture in the city’s Fenway District since the 1970s, has been sold to an affiliate of local developer Samuels & Associates. The buyer paid just under $10 million for 1345 Boylston St. to its owner/operator, Goodyear [...]
04/28/08 |
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This week’s Boston Real Estate Condo Market Reports are now available.
The market reports provide readers with detailed information on the state of the Boston real estate market.
The reports include data on inventory, recent sales, and price per square foot of condos for sale and recently closed.
In addition to a summary report of sales across the [...]
04/28/08 |
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