The Big Crumble (part IV)
UPDATED 07/24/06: Andrew Cline, editorial page editor for the New Hampshire Union Leader, proposes renaming the Big Dig after Melina Del Valle, the woman killed when a portion of the ceiling collapsed....
View ArticleThe Big Crumble (part V)
The age-old dictum “Follow the money!” appears to apply to the Big Dig Crumble as well, and Aaron Margolis over at HubPolitics.com is doing just that. Margolis’s investigation starts with a few...
View ArticleBig Crumble update (part VI)
The Big Dig Crumble news cycle keeps churning away…. MTA Chair Matt Amorello has filed a lawsuit to keep Gov. Romney from forcing his resignation. On the other hand, the other MTA board members had...
View ArticleBig Crumble round-up (part VII)
UPDATED (07/26/06): Ken McCracken over at WILLisms has some futher observations and cogent comments (including about duct tape). He’s also got a great map of the Big Dig Crumble itself. Also, the...
View ArticleThe Big Crumble – Amorello resigns
UPDATED (07/27/06): The Boston Globe has a section of its website dedicated to the Big Dig Crumble. Yesterday, MTA chief Matt Amorello lost his legal bid to block today’s scheduled hearing to remove...
View ArticleThe Big Crumble – Probes; evidence; memos
While the State of Massachusetts has been carrying out its own investigations, the National Transportation Safety Administration has started its own separate probe into the causes of the Big Dig...
View ArticleThe Big Crumble – a quiet weekend
Well, no new loose bolts or other failures have been disclosed over the weekend. Mostly, people are jockeying for position, to either take advantage of or avoid fallout from the Big Dig Crumble. Design...
View ArticleFallout from the Big Crumble (so to speak)
(UPDATED BELOW) (And, Megan, thanks for the Instalanche!) I haven’t been terribly happy with Sen. Reid’s battle against the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site over the years, but even I have to agree...
View ArticleDo-It-Yourself Despair.Com Posters
Despair.com — long one of my favorite sites — now has a web-based function to do your own ‘Demotivation’ posters. For example: Or: Or, in honor of the puppy postings below: Hat tip to Ace of Spades....
View ArticleTuesday afternoon . . .
And the luck of the Irish to you! . . . will be later today. Right now, it’s Tuesday morning, so it must be link time: President Obama’s War on Business continues. As I noted yesterday, I’m not happy...
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