Month in Review: October, 2014: Part 1, Reports from the Right Coast
By: David A. Smith During October, I finished my record-setting series of twelve parts (When the house loses: Part 6, Admitted backdating documents, Part 7, consultant slash lobbyist?, Part 8, All...
View ArticleMonth in Review: October, 2014: Part 2, From the Left Coast
[Continued from last week’s Part 1.] By: David A. Smith In October, to prove that the Right Coast has no monopoly on development neck tourniquets, I explored the nation’s least-affordable city...
View ArticleBuying optionality, or Is there life after death?
By: David A. Smith Backing up the claim? Vera Coking’s boarding house, pre-demolition A few months ago, in August, I wrote at length (You have the right to remain: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part...
View ArticleCleaning up at the casino: Part 1, “A fairly rough site”
By: David A. Smith The referendum to repeal casino gambling in Massachusetts having been decisively defeated (as I and everybody else expected, in part because proponents of casino gambling outspent...
View ArticlePublic nuisance value
By: David A. Smith Actually, that’s just what they are hoping to do No one, least of all the Massachusetts Gaming Commission, could have been surprised when the City of Boston sued the commission; the...
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