View from the ‘Bridge

Progressive Commentary from Cambridge, Mass.

Big Dig Euro?

February 12th, 2008

£1bn ‘city beneath a city’ planned for Amsterdam

Note from Boston to the Dutch: Whatever you do, throw away the bids from Bechtel and Powers Fasteners Inc…

 

Crank Yanking Romney

January 21st, 2008

Mitt Romney may be an opportunistic, mediocre politician without any core values… but at least he raised some funny sons. From the Five Brothers Blog via BMG:

 

VFB offical website of Cambridge?

January 17th, 2008

The folks over at Local.com seem to think that View from the ‘Bridge is the official website of the City of Cambridge :

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I’m flattered, but not sure I want to take credit for everything that happens here…

 

No copy editors at NECN?

January 15th, 2008

From Tuesday night’s newscast:

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That’s supposed to be “brisk,” right?

Someone was screwing around over there. Right after this typo they cut to commercial with a teaser about Romney’s win in Michigan, while playing video of Bud Selig’s testimony to Congress.

 

My New Hampshire Predictions

January 8th, 2008

My New Hampshire predictions:

Democrats
Obama - 37%
Clinton - 32%
Edwards - 21%
Richardson - 5%
Kucinich - 3%

Republicans
McCain - 32%
Romney - 26%
Huckabee - 17%
Paul - 11%
Giuliani - 9%
Thompson - 4%