Resurrection: a past history

The Old North Church of Boston, where two lantern signal the departure of the British army to Lexington, will be remembered forever because of what happened inside it. But under the ground, in a dark and dusty crypt, rarely still visited, the history of hundreds Boston citizens are forgotten.

But now, thanks to the Old North Foundation and to the innovative work of extraordinary archaeologists, those stories are beginning to rise and to be appreciated in the normal life of the lively Boston’s North End.

Armed by a flash, a notebook, and determined to ignore the shadows and the mysterious crunch that surrounded her, Jane Lyden Rousseau is working hundreds hours for examine the crypt conditions and the crypt configurations.
Under the ground, she is examining books and documents older than 100 years, for understand who is buried under the oldest Boston church, why, and what we can learn from the first American bury rites.

It is incredible how much you can learn on the life studing the death, Rousseau says when she was assistant at the Peabody Museum in the Harvard University.

What she did was give a new image of the hierarchies and the priority of one of the first big American ports. More we can learn from the person who pray here before the revolution, more whe can appreciate their decision.

Agenda for City: deferrals

Usually, the Town Meetings held early in the spring, when people start to feel the first effects of the economical crisis. The last signal of the crisis was that the officers were delaying of one month the budget calculation because of the deep uncertainty about the profit of the several local administrations and of the economical aid from the state.

Not every Town Meetings was delayed, just those ones first in the season. In the Sudbury's Town Meeting members, for example, they plan will be hold and voted the 2010 budget, in date written in the town Statute because was perfect for the farmers. But when the members will meet, they will need immediately a vote for delay the debates about the budget until the 11 May.

“We are calculating the budget from too uncertain data that can be easily updated”, said Larry O’Brien, chairman of the Sudbury's Town Meeting. “In this moment every two days you hear something new”.

Also others town that hold the meetings in April, like the Medfield, Andover and Lakeville, have already delayed the annual meetings until May or June, also citing obscure signal that from Beacon Hill. Over the already cited cities there are at least 10 more which have delayed the meeting until May or June after talks with the city officers.

Hybrid cab from 2015

The ecological laws for the Boston’s cab are very rigid: every 1.825 taxi with licence have to be equiped by hybrid engine from 2015. But the city’s approach to its fleet of 3.300 cars, bus and truck is more relaxed, without local timetables.

The lack of goals achieved by the city influence its position in the nation. Boston is the first in the major American cities in the use of hybrid vehicles or that use alternative fuels.

Boston is becoming one of the cities with the most efficient fleet. The city’s officers admit that they haven’t time limit in the fleet construction, unlike the mandates imposed on taxis operators. Some of them think that this is hypocritical.

“We should wonder, and what about City Hall?” said Andrew Herbert, an USA Taxi Garage in Dorchester manager and publisher of the Rear View Mirror, a quarterly column on the Boston Taxi Industry. “It is a double standard”.

The small enterprises and the owners of single taxis are more resistant about the changes of the hybrid rules imposed last 29 August, that ask them to pay for the new hybrids more than 30.000 $.

A new project for the Quincy

For years, the landscape in the South Main Street in West Hatford was dominated by two decadent car dealers. In fact the new big dealers on the Connecticut town's downtown make shadow on the smaller ones across the street.

Now the land lots where were the dealers have become Blue Black Square through a 258 million dollars retraining from resident, businessman, and municipal officers. It is made by several area with a lot of restaurant, luxury shops, flat and condominiums.

The same develop teem - Street-Works Development LLC from New York – has a 1,2 billiard dollars Quincy vision, and the officers like these ideas.

Richard Heapes, a partner of this enterprise, said that the project for the Quincy were planned also for the Connecticut.

You can note how those projects were similar, also if the Blue Back, finished two years before, was just one-fifth of the Quincy project.