November 2005
Double Play Minor League Baseball and Urban Revitalization
As Massachusetts municipalities and state officials search for economic strategies that work, a few cities have pinned their hopes on minor league baseball, where games regularly draw a few thousand fans into communities that are looking to revitalize their urban landscapes. A panel featuring a minor league executive, mayor, city planner, newspaper official, and a researcher and author gathered at the Omni Parker House Friday to discuss the pros and cons of the trend, experiences in Brockton, Lowell and Worcester,…
Find out more »October 2005
RealTalk VIII Getting Around Town
RealTalk VIII Getting Around Town Transcript 1. What is your gender? Male - 56% Female - 44% 2. What is your age? Less than 18 - 0% 18 to 24 - 10% 25 to 30 - 43% 31 to 35 - 14% 36 to 40 - 6% Over 40 - 26% Refused - 1% 3. How long have you lived in Massachusetts? Less than one year - 8% More than one year but less than five years -…
Find out more »June 2005
RealTalk VII Welcoming New Bostonians
1. What is your gender? Male - 39% Female - 61% 2. What is your age? Less than 18 - 0% 18 to 24 - 19% 25 to 30 - 42% 31 to 35 - 16% 36 and over - 21% Refused - 2% 3. Which of the following best describes your racial heritage? White - 61% Black - 14% Asian - 5% Hispanic - 8% Multi-racial - 4% Other - 6% Refuse - 2% 4. What…
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End of the Line Big DigRelated Transit Projects and the Future of Public Transportation
Faced with worsening congestion on its roads and significant funding and service challenges at the MBTA, Massachusetts is in the midst of a debate over how best to get people and goods moving more quickly and efficiently on its roads, highways, buses and trains, while also complying with clean air laws. On Thursday morning, experts in the field gathered at the Omni Parker House ballroom to discuss the options at a CommonWealth Forum entitled “End of the Line? Big Dig-Related…
Find out more »April 2005
RealTalk VI New Civic Leadership in Massachusetts
1. What is your gender? Male - 52% Female - 48% 2. Has the Curse of the Bambino ended? Yes - 78% No - 12% What is a Bambino - 10% 3. What is your age? Less than 18 - 0% 18 to 24 - 28% 25 to 30 - 43% 31 to 35 - 18% 36 to 39 - 0% 40 and over - 9% Refused - 2% 4. Which of the following best describes your racial heritage? White…
Find out more »March 2005
This Land Is Our Land The Challenge of Diversity in Massachusetts
Keynote Speaker: Ilan Stavans, Professor at Amherst College Dr. Ilan Stavans, the Lewis-Sebring Professor of Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College, delivered the 2005 Commonwealth Humanities Lecture on March 30, 2005 at the National Heritage Museum in Lexington, MA. A descendant of Eastern European Jews who settled in Mexico, Ilan Stavans calls himself "a sum of parts. Spanish is my right eye, English my left; Yiddish my background and Hebrew my conscience." Henry Louis Gates has called Stavans…
Find out more »The Nonprofit Payoff
Ranging from the tiny to the massive, Massachusetts-based non-profit entities employ more than 420,000 people, or more than 13 percent of the state’s total workforce, and added 33,000 jobs during the most recent period of economic decline. In addition to being the source of many charitable, public benefit services and good-paying jobs, non-profit entities in Massachusetts hold state government contracts worth more than $2.5 billion, pump close to $50 billion into local economies each year, and collectively hold $137 billion…
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