The final tally in today’s $700 billion “bailout bill” was 205 votes for, 208 228 votes against.
A difference of three thirteen twenty-three votes.
Of the Massachusetts delegation, three Congressmen voted against the bill.
U.S. Reps. Stephen Lynch (South Boston), William Delahunt (Quincy) and John Tierney (Salem).
Boston real estate

From the Boston Globe, 8 September:
Today, Forbes Park is still an 18-acre swath of riverfront property in Chelsea, home to an old, vacant printing factory and a defunct boiler room. But the project’s developer, Urban Design and Development in Somerville, promises it will be the envy of even the most devout environmental enthusiasts when completed [...]

The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston takes time out from saving us from ruin / turning us into communists (depending on your point of view) long enough to publish results of a new study that asked, “Why do college graduates leave New England?”
According to the Boston Business Journal:
The report, to be released Thursday morning, contradicts [...]

Several towns in the Greater Boston-area are handling the real estate slowdown quite well.
As I mentioned in an entry a couple weeks ago, Wakefield is one of these.
The Herald has more:
Wakefield ranks seventh on a list of the top 10 ZIP codes in the country for single-family home sales, according to national real-time real estate [...]

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One of the most-annoying things that happen when you’re driving is coming up on an intersection where your path is blocked by cars going perpendicular to you. You can’t move, they can’t move, tempers flare, guns are drawn … we’ve all been there.
New York City instituted a new regulation [...]

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts appears to be weathering the economic slowdown pretty well, all things considered.
According to the state Department of Revenue, in August:
* Corporate tax withholding was down 28%, compared to last year;
• Withholding collections were up more than 10 percent;
• Income tax collections for August were up 10 percent;
• Sales tax collections were [...]