Boston It’s just makes a cold day even colder when it starts with reading an obituary in the Boston Globe about Nick von Hoffman dying at Rockport, Maine at 88 years old. For von Hoffman the early part of this career in Chicago when he was a community organizer and the chief lieutenant of Saul …
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Nonprofit Confusion and BatchGeo
Boston Running around Boston the last several days I’ve met great professors and students at Boston University School of Social Work, the Heller School at Brandeis, and the Planning Department at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. It’s fascinating to hear what people are thinking when they begin asking questions after I tell them about …
Remembering Springfield Years Later
Springfield I haven’t been back in Springfield, Massachusetts since 2009. Driving from the airport in Hartford, nothing looked that different at 1 AM in the morning, but that’s pretty faint praise. The Basketball Hall of Fame is prominently located along the expressway. Mass Mutual Insurance company is still large enough to have its old highway …