Thursday’s Globe relates that Mayor Tom Menino is considering a number of new initiatives. He states that there is a particular opportunity to get things done now: “I have the political capital to do it right now that I haven’t had in the...

I have been at a meeting in North Carolina with budget watchdog and fiscal conservative groups for the last two days. Lots of great ideas, but clearly being from Massachusetts sets you apart from other folks in some ways. One example is how Governors...

Tom Menino already has by ensuring that he will be mayor of Boston for 20 years. 20 years. Boston has been an American city for only two and a quarter centuries. 20 years is a long time. Things have gotten better over those two decades, and there...

Robert Levy, chairman of the CATO Institute, is a brilliant guy. He was talking today in Asheville about the fact that conservatives and liberals both abuse the interstate commerce clause in the US Constitution, for their own purposes. Liberals have...

On the drive in this morning I heard an interesting idea being tested in Fort Worth Texas (isn’t that one of the highest health cost cities in the country?).  See the link...