WE HERE IN THE GREAT COMMONWEALTH of Massachusetts are certain that we occupy prime real estate at the center of the universe. (How else to explain our property valuations?) Our ears burn Sox Nation red, Blue State blue, and Harvard crimson when the rest of the country says it isn’t so. Well, this year it was.
In 2012, we nearly exported a former governor to the White House (who had signed into law the state health care system that we had already successfully exported). We celebrated the oldest active ballpark in Major League Baseball, even as we jeered the most dysfunctional team in recent memory to play on its field. We rekindled interest in the largest art heist in history. We told you that Jesus might have had a wife, and we put an end to the miraculous run of a football star who made piety a nationwide craze. Our scandals and successes, our tragedies and triumphs, even our babies — welcome, Vivian (Bundchen) Brady — made national headlines. And if you still don’t believe us, we also grew the biggest biceps, and we weren’t afraid to flex them.
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This is the year that Boston residents discovered that one of its biggest Corporations - State Street Corporation, was sending hundreds of Massachusetts and thousands of US jobs to INDIA after receiving a $2 Billion TARp bailout from the American people and a incredibly misconceieved $11.5 Million tax break from the city of Boston, Mayor Menino, and the BRA, and the only rersaon Boston discovered this was because mighty Channel 2 with Emily Rooney had the courage to report it, whereas the Globe was too cowardly to do so... Was Emily Rooney ever considered for the Editor's spot at the GLOBE ? maybe the New York Times should rethink its selection... ???
http://www.wgbh.org/programs/Greater-Boston-11/episodes/July-19-2012State-Street-outsourcing-40276
Are you kidding? Have you ventured outside of Rt. 128? When Massachusetts is mentioned in my neck of the woods, conversation soon turns to NECC. Great job Massachusetts!!!