Month: July 2014

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How A backroom deal saved Goggins Real Estate from homelessness

The other day, in a planning department file marked “Carlon Drive”  I found a 38 page study done by Baystate Environmental  Consultants (BEC) entitled “The functional Analysis  of the Hydrology and Hydraulics of the Barrett Street Marsh.”  It was done thirteen years  ago, in April, 2000. Not a page turner, but an eye-opener.  Here’s the … Continue reading How A backroom deal saved Goggins Real Estate from homelessness

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Facts? about the camp cars, a video produced by Norfolk Southern, and a video calling for their abolition.

Below is another video shot in 2006, when evidently the Teamsters had launched a campaign to abolish camp cars. Guerilla video. I think living conditions now have improved because of these efforts.  Still, there’s something about this system that makes me think of that line out of the old song, “I owe my soul to … Continue reading Facts? about the camp cars, a video produced by Norfolk Southern, and a video calling for their abolition.