Tom Keane lives on Beacon Hill. He writes a column in the Boston Globe Magazine. This week he talks about a developer’s proposal to tear down the Government Center garage, replacing it with … well, something. See, “neighbors”, and I use that term loosely, have opinions wide and varied about what should go in its [...]

According to Banker & Tradesman: A plan to move a Boston performing arts high school from the Fenway to the Theatre District could give the Red Sox a chance to expand their real estate holdings around Fenway Park. Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino wants to build a new Boston Arts Academy on a city-owned parking [...]

I’m only posting this because there’s probably a fair number of people who don’t read the Herald every day, and I don’t think the Globe picked it up (because it’s not April Fool’s Day?). A dramatic land swap giving Boston a new aquarium, moving City Hall to the waterfront and opening up a prime downtown [...]

From the Globe: In the latest clash in an increasingly public quarrel, Mayor Thomas M. Menino called on Boston College yesterday to increase its voluntary payments to the city to offset tax revenue lost as a result of the school’s recent $67 million purchase of a high-rise apartment complex on Commonwealth Avenue. “He believes BC [...]

A couple months ago, it was announced that the city of Boston was going to be giving JP Morgan property tax breaks in order to entice them to expand their operations by signing a lease on a building at 451 D Street, in Boston’s Seaport District (née, the South Boston Waterfront). It was implied that, [...]

The Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) is the city of Boston’s planning and development department. Pretty much, if you’re planning on building anything of any size (greater than a single-family home), you’ll need to go through the BRA. Which, for all intents and purposes means, the mayor, Thomas M Menino, has to give the okay, as [...]

The Mayor says that the city must get involved to keep a financial services company from “picking up stakes” and moving out of the city. Fighting to keep a global financial services firm inside city limits, Mayor Thomas Menino is unveiling a multi-faceted incentive program and calling on the Boston Redevelopment Authority and city council [...]

A column written by me appears in this week’s South End News. A city divided by John Keith South End News I sometimes joke on my blog that we should break up the city of Boston – that the “Boston Proper” neighborhoods, including the South End, Back Bay, and Beacon Hill, should secede from the [...]

After three decades of keeping mum, Barbara Walters is disclosing a past affair with married U.S. Senator Edward Brooke, whom she remembers as “exciting” and “brilliant.” Appearing on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” scheduled to air Tuesday, Walters shares details of her relationship with Brooke that lasted several years in the 1970s, according to a transcript [...]

Sour grapes or spot-on criticism? From the Globe: From projects as small as a park playground, to visions as grand as a new City Hall on the South Boston waterfront, [Mayor Thomas] Menino has showered audiences with commitments and promises since his election in 1993. He has delivered on many, but not all … … [...]