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By James Coulter  The summer doldrums…  ...

The new Waterfront plan feasibility study is a welcome relief for City Center West movement and here's why. It is a privately funded feasibility study at this point, no more, no less. It has closure attached with a 3 month timeline. I repeat 90 days 'til ...

Tune in tomorrow and see whether I fend off both Dave Couvillon and Andrew Foote in tomorrow's Radio Debate. We'll discuss the goings on in the city but it looks like the makings of a Verbal WWF tag team cage match

July 22 noon on CJAM you can listen to our scaledown show After speaking with Shane from Cambridge who is there getting his PH.D. we asked what he made quality of life so much better in Kendall Square. We talked about  the mass transit system which could take him virtually anywhere ...

Noise and the Hybrid Buses Business Case Those requesting that a business case be made for the purchase of Hybrid buses seem to be ignoring the fact that there is a qualitative cost that can't be quantified. The fact that the noise from hybrid buses range from 3 to 7 decibals ...

Scaledown broke out it's international correspondents today and put them to work in an effort to get Mayor Eddie Francis, in light of his desire to learn from the experiences of other communities, to ...

The mayor isn't the only one going to chicago for some ideas. I spent this weekend there as well and on Saturday I went to the 40th Annual Sheffield Garden Walk where I learned about the Sheffield Neighborhood Association. I fell in love with ...