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I don’t live in the Second Suffolk District, where a heated battle is underway between incumbent State Senator Diane Wilkerson and challenger Sonia Chang-Diaz, the challenger who won the Democratic nomination last week. I have no standing to evaluate whether Wilkerson or Chang-Diaz is more capable of representing that District’s needs.
However, as a Chinese-American, I [...]
It’s not like I’ve become a WBUR fanboy or anything, but the radio station’s new media department invited its Facebook and Twitter friends to their offices this morning for a tour and informal conversation about social media. Along the way, we got to see the office at work, including Bob Oakes and an even more [...]
While the feedback I got from my earlier question about canceling our subscription to the Globe was largely negative (here’s a sample from Universal Hub: “If you enjoy reading the paper, keep your subscription. A newspaper dropped on your front stoop is a wonderful thing to wake up to each morning. That and coffee of [...]
A few days ago I came back from a rare early-morning run and noticed an old car slowly easing its way up our street, drive-by style. The man was clearly lost. He was also delivering the Boston Globe.
That’s yet another reason to cancel our subscription to the Globe: the horrible environmental impact of the delivery [...]
I wrote this sitting on the 1pm Peter Pan bus from New York back to Boston:
I’m noticed some pretty disturbing things:
The bus driver has been on the phone for a good portion of the drive.
Greyhound / Peter Pan doesn’t post a “How’s my driving?” phone number inside the cabin.
Even if they did, I’d be [...]
With Greyhound’s own BoltBus funneling off the crazy bargain shoppers, Greyhound’s Boston-New York discount fare (the one you have to click “Can I get a lower price?” to get) is now up to $45. But in a victory for transparency, they’ve also dropped the “convenience fee” of $3. So, compared with a month ago, the [...]
So, hoping to get to Long Island in time for Passover, I was shopping for tix that would put me somewhere near Penn Station, so the Chinatown buses were out. Amtrak’s still too expensive, so the old gray mare, Greyhound, was my next option. Turns out the standard price for Boston-New York is $32… but [...]
I’ve frequently traveled between Boston and New York for the last 15 years, and I’ve tried every mode of transit from car to bus to train to plane. Recently I’ve been choosing travel options based purely on convenience from/to my end/start point, so when I’m off the West Side, I take the Greyhound or Amtrak; [...]
For three years running now, we’ve had a crazy January thaw here in New England. I’m looking out the window, and it’s 67 degrees outside. It was funny the first time (two years ago), but this is downright freaky. I’ve been in Boston since 1993, and this is not normal weather for this area. Maybe [...]
