Related: You Can't Board Tall Ships From Boston Harbor
"$1m deal will open Tall Ships to public; Patrick, Menino OK using convention funds for safety" by Donovan Slack, Globe Staff | June 17, 2009
The Convention Center Authority had not yet been briefed on the plan.
Only in Massachusetts!
The authority is expected to take the money from a fund supported by hotel excise taxes and rental car surcharges. The governor has discretion over the fund and has approved the money for the event, the officials said.
And they be tagging us with more taxes when we ain't looking or sleeping.
Related: The Perils of One-Party Politics: Massachusetts' Democracy
The Perils of One-Party Politics: The Ruling Party
The Perils of One-Party Politics: Speaker's Shoes
Gassing Up For Summer
Yup, YOUR SHIP has COME IN, Bay-Stater!
Patrick and Menino personally hammered out some details of the agreement, including when they saw each other over the weekend at Boston’s gay pride parade....
I'm not even going to say it.
Neither Menino nor the governor was available for comment last night.....
(Blog editor chuckling)
Of the $1 million from provided by the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority, the city will receive $750,000. The remainder will go to State Police and the state Department of Conservation and Recreation. The Massachusetts Port Authority will cover all the costs of hosting the ships at state docks, the officials said.
What, they gonna raise parking rates again?
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Also see: Dining With Massport
"Final curtain falls on North Shore" by Geoff Edgers, Globe Staff | June 17, 2009
North Shore Music Theatre, which during its heyday was the largest nonprofit theater in the region, announced yesterday that it failed to raise enough money to reopen this summer and will close for good.
People who bought tickets for the now-canceled season will probably not get their money back. The closing leaves a huge hole in the arts scene on the North Shore, where as many as 350,000 people a year attended the theater’s slate of lavishly produced musicals staged in the round....
Fellows said the theater cannot survive with $10 million of debt....
There was at least a little good news for North Shore supporters yesterday.
I swear, the Globe would look for a needle in a dung heap when it comes to pushing the agenda!
The smaller Stoneham Theatre said it would offer subscribers one free ticket to a Friday night performance of its own upcoming season’s productions....
Oooh, I think I'll make a glass of lemonade.
To see whose going to add to the swelling unemployment (including those not counted like me) GO HERE
Couldn't spare a cool mill for them, huh, guys?
Truthfully, I'd rather see a play than a ship.
