KSB podcast 1

by | May 1, 2007 | Urban Compass

Mike Cass, who works for the Office of Housing and Neighborhood Services, kindly allowed me to tag along with him during Saturday’s Keep Springfield Beautiful citywide cleanup. I showed up per his instructions at the cold and foggy Duggan Middle School parking...

Targeting urban readers and change

by | May 1, 2007 | Urban Compass

The following piece was published in Urban Compass last August on MassLive.com. Recent conversations compel me to run it again as food for thought.A recent Smart City Radio interview (mp3) with Brian Boyle, of Issue Media Group (PDF), was so terribly compelling that I...

KSB podcast 2

by | May 2, 2007 | Urban Compass

As Mike Cass and I toured the city’s "dirty dozen" sites last Saturday during Keep Springfield Beautiful’s citywide cleanup, we passed a work crew of inmates from the Hampden County Correctional Center as they purged trash from Rifle Street and...

Sarno confirms candidacy

by | May 3, 2007 | Urban Compass

Last night at The Cedars on Island Pond Road, City Councilor Domenic Sarno confirmed his candidacy for mayor, having taken out nomination papers earlier in the day. In contrast to Mayor Charles Ryan’s announcement at the same location a couple weeks earlier,...

What is this Springfield?

by | May 4, 2007 | Urban Compass

A few days ago I received an email from a person in an undisclosed location "checking out the city of Springfield on its site." She wanted to know which neighborhoods are represented by each of the photos of the city’s Web site, and added that she has...