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...lanes of Route 495, Boston's outer ring road, split the Commonwealth in half. On the inside, the Boston metropolitan area is booming. Shiny new buildings are going up everywhere, employment rates are climbing and rumor has it that crime is dropping. But on the outside of Boston's hustle and bustle, smaller cities such as Springfield, Fall River and New Bedford are struggling to survive...
While this economic chasm is highly visible, the Commonwealth also harbors a more subtle inconsistency in perspective. Those who live on the inside of Route 495 have a unique conception of Massachusetts. Ultimately, it is this difference that allows unequal economic development to continue...
...restaurant in the city on the weekend, spend a week of their summer on the Cape, and if they don't read the Globe, they read the Herald. Some still hold onto a local spirit, but the overwhelming majority have only a metropolitan identity. To them, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is Boston...
...billion, making it the largest publicly funded project in the United States today. In 1987, then-President Ronald W. Reagan cited the project as an example of pork-barrel spending and vetoed federal funding for it--but the veto was overridden thanks to the enormous clout of the Commonwealth's Democratic heavy-weights on Capitol Hill, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 and the late Speaker of the House Thomas M. "Tip" O'Neill...
...council also voted 5-0, with four members voting "present," to support an ordinance urging the Commonwealth of Massachusetts not to interfere with same-gender marriages...