The Illusion of Affordability

Nor was he the only one to have this reaction. Here's mfunk: I don't understand why everyone spouts off numbers like in this article about the price a family can afford on a house based on some income. I just bought a house for high $300k's on my family's $150k income and that's basically the upper end of what we can comfortably afford. We pay our mortgage, all other bills, and still manage to save some money every month so maybe that is the discrepancy. But no way in h e l l is a family with an income of $68k affording the mortgage on a $300k house in anything remotely resembling a comfortable Continue reading >>>

Few remain to tell the stories of 1944

There is no central database of D-day survivors. Here are others in Greater Boston we found with the help of veterans groups and senior communities. Paul Burke, 87, of Norwood The Newton Highlands native served as coxswain on a landing craft, delivering troops from a Wendy Maeda/ Globe Staff D-Day veterans Bernard Glassman (left), 98, and David Rosenthal, 94, of Revere large transport ship offshore to beaches in the British zone. Often under fire, he narrowly escaped death twice: once from shellfire while beached in Normandy, and the other time when a German submarine torpedoed the ship Continue reading >>>

ADL’s Foxman’s Armenian genocide remark "disingenuous"

ADL's Foxman's Armenian genocide remark "disingenuous" Published: Monday May 26, 2014 At the May 17, 2014 Suffolk Law School commencement at the Wang Theatre in Boston, Massachusetts, the Ad Hoc Greater Boston Committee for Human Rights distributed 1000 flyers (please see the attached document) to the graduates and their families and guests. The flyer protested Suffolk University President James McCarthy's invitation to Abraham Foxman, the Anti-Defamation League's national director, to be its keynote speaker and receive an honorary law degree.The main reasons cited by the flyer were Mr. Continue reading >>>

Report finds significant mail delays in greater Boston; focuses on consolidation …

Subjects:Industrial products and services (1213)Industries (3909)Places:Boston (214)Massachusetts (550)  BOSTON — A U.S. Postal Service Inspector General report has found the greater Boston area has experienced significant delays in mail delivery. The report found the Boston Processing and Distribution Center had about 28 million delayed pieces of mail in the first quarter of the 2014 fiscal year — a 56 percent increase compared with the same period last year. Similarly sized facilities averaged about 8 million delayed pieces of mail during Continue reading >>>