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...

M is for Alex P. Keaton

by | May 1, 2007 | Dear Dexter

I knew there was a reason I liked Michael J. Fox (aside, that is, from his winning smile, his ability to go back in time to turn his loser parents into obnoxious yuppies, and that time when I was trying to cut back on my fossil fuel consumption when he loaned me his...