Once again Inspector Gadget comes through. Anyone else wonder why we need to be funding this office, everything he reports on has already been written on by either the Globe or Herald.

OK let's see vendors are working, greater police details and increased tax revenue to the state. I know if the team had lost money the city would not reduce the amount expected. I'm not saying that they should not renegotiate but ensure that fair market rates for an open space are applied and not gouge to kill a good thing. The team has done a good job making that area of town a desirable destination beyond just the inside of Fenway.

More for pensions and free perks

when is somebody anybody including the so-called journalists from the globe going to realize that there is NO ENTITY called THE CITY and NO ENTITY called the BRA , but rather one person who makeE every decision having to do with this formerly proud and once great place and then, like the coward that he is, when things as usual backfire, he than hides behind said entities. that person being the blithering nitwit bagman mayor thomas m. menino. ma

How many times are you going to use the word nitwit? Being negative is not going to solve anything.

How about putting the street out for bid?

First, this give-away of public resources, based on an unlawful eminent domain taking of public land, has been written about in the media for years, by the Globe, the Herald, the Phoenix and other outlets. And by me, in a column published in the South End News in 2006. And the Alliance of Boston Neighborhoods, which I headed, which testified publicly against this deal as it was being put together. Of course, the exact amount of Red Sox profit wasn't yet known (although any sentient being could predict it would be tens of millions), but the fact that the Sox got to illegally privatize public streets through the BRA's illegal seizure of public land, paying pocket change for the right to do so, and creating a monopoly market for food and souvenir vendors, all this was much publicized, as a quick Google search will reveal. Also public was the knowledge that the Mayor, when he was piloting this sweetheart arrangement, charged the Sox even less, literally just a few measly dollars -- because, well, if he cared about the taxpayers of Boston we wouldn't be having this conversation. The question is why the IG/AG never bothered to look into all of this. The principles were the same, regardless of the dollar amount of the loss. This is and always was a theft of honest services by the Mayor. And it's not the only one, nor the biggest one. The IG/AG hasn't looked at any of the others either, for example, Menino's gift of City Hall Plaza, worth $300-$400 million, to the BRA by this same eminent domain boondoggle. Yes, yes, the BRA took City Hall Plaza back from the City of Boston in 1996, so it could develop a hotel and a garage in a joint venture with a bunch of developers called The Trust for City Hall Plaza. That was all over the media too, and I wrote about that one as well. And Hayward Place. And Winthrop Square. And 24 parcels of land in Dorchester that Menino gave the BRA for one dollar and the BRA then sold for $2.4 million. And the One Beacon Street tax give-away of $40 million in return for $3 million in slush money. The BRA has stolen thousands of parcels of City-owned land with mayoral complicity, as former BRA Director Mark Maloney testified to City Council (it's safe to tell the Council anything, since they will never take action). The IG/AG have been AWOL. Maybe we need the FBI. Oh, wait, I told the FBI about the bid-rigged Hayward Place and the One Beacon Street shake-down, and they didn't want to bother, either (although they found it urgently important to frame Chuck Turner for a non-existent bribe and send him off to federal prison for three years). Is there some international justice enforcement entity we could petition to help us? No, I thought not. Second -- and listen carefully: THE BRA AND THE CITY HAVE SEPARATE PIGGY BANKS. I don't know why not a single reporter in the city has been able to grasp this fact, no matter how many times I explain it to them. Now I see that the Inspector General doesn't understand it, either. The BRA i

CONT'D Second -- and listen carefully: THE BRA AND THE CITY HAVE SEPARATE PIGGY BANKS. I don't know why not a single reporter in the city has been able to grasp this fact, no matter how many times I explain it to them. Now I see that the Inspector General doesn't understand it, either. The BRA is an "independent authority" and it keeps every dime it can rake in, via its sundry nefarious ways to rake in money (and there are many!). Menino needs the BRA to make all his illegal development deals legal, so he keeps the the Authority fat and happy with off-budget feedings (to spare this rogue agency the bother of accountability to the public once a year) by (among other things too numerous to list here) giving it City-owned land, which it then sells or leases -- and KEEPS EVERY DIME. This has bled the City's treasury of billions of dollars over the years. BILLIONS. And the BRA has amassed a huge land empire, on which it pays no property taxes (although by law the Mayor could demand payments in lieu of taxes, but that would defeat his purpose, wouldn't it!); it has become, according to a BRA project manager, the second biggest developer in the city. And of course, the BRA writes the development rules, so that's very convenient for enriching itself. Although the City can give the BRA money, the BRA is not obligated to give the City anything. And it never does. SO FORCING THE BRA TO COLLECT MORE MONEY FROM THE RED SOX WILL ONLY FATTEN THE BRA'S BLOATED SALARIES; IT WILL NEVER FUND A SCHOOL, A PARK, A YOUTH PROGRAM, A SENIOR SERVICE, A STREET CLEAN-UP -- NOTHING. YOU WILL NOT PUNISH THE BRA FOR MAKING THIS OUTRAGEOUS DEAL BY FORCING IT TO RAKE IN MORE MONEY FOR ITSELF!! The BRA spokesperson is laughing into her sleeve as she obediently agrees to see if the next lease can be adjusted to get a fair payment from the Sox. We'll try hard, oh yes, we will! Would anyone take on the real story here: "How the BRA, with Mayoral complicity, cannibalizes the City of Boston"?