stimulus

Feds stimulate Roslindale

adamg — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:13:27 +0000

The Globe reports Boston will spend $33 million in federal stimulus funds for the Washington-Beech renovation project, which due to begin this spring anyway (the BHA had started moving people out last year as it gets ready to tear the whole place down and replace it with townhouses and a single large apartment building). So does this mean the city will spend the $33-million portion of the money it had already set aside for the project on something else?

Stimulus where you need it: Hanscom airport taxiways

Brett — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:49:05 +0000

Just a few months ago whilst on the way back from a weekend in Vegas with Adam, Kaz, The Zak and Swrrrly, UHUB-1 hit a pothole in one of the taxiways at Hanscom- causing my monocle to fall into Adam's glass of port, Swrrrly's Cuban cigar to nearly set the Alpacian leather on fire, and the door on The Zak's soundproof chamber to pop open. The latter resulted in a good 5 minutes of ramblings about the libraries in Vegas until we got to our hangar and transferred to HUBBENZ (the Prius is Adam's runabout when he wants to drive himself or the chauffeur has the day off.) Well, we decided to use our massive collective influence in the Boston political and media scene to make Massport ask for $10,000,000 in stimulus funds to fix those potholes.

Unfortunately, with the recent changes around Universal Hub, the Citation had to go- so, we implore Massport: please, we don't need those runway repairs any more! Spend that change on something we can believe in!

Radio Boston and Federal Stimulus

MarkNavin — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:58:44 +0000

Hey all, Radio Boston, is looking at the federal stimulus package this week, and asking, what should we use our share for in Boston? Give us your ideas early at www.radioboston.org.