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Boston And New York: The City Upon A Hill And Gotham (2006), Shaun O’Connell
Boston And New York: The City Upon A Hill And Gotham (2006), Shaun O’Connell
New England Journal of Public Policy
This article is about the author's experience with visiting New York during it's rebirth after 9/11. He speaks about the history of both cities and how they have each grown into their own to become places of future enterprise and cultural cohesiveness.
Reprinted from New England Journal of Public Policy 21, no. 1 (2006), article 9.
Boston And New York: The City Upon A Hill And Gotham, Shaun O'Connell
Boston And New York: The City Upon A Hill And Gotham, Shaun O'Connell
New England Journal of Public Policy
This article is about the author's experience with visiting New York during it's rebirth after 9/11. He speaks about the history of both cities and how they have each grown into their own to become places of future enterprise and cultural cohesiveness.
It's Hard Outside: Profiles Of Elderly Homelessness, Joseph Doolin
It's Hard Outside: Profiles Of Elderly Homelessness, Joseph Doolin
New England Journal of Public Policy
This article is a qualitative study of the lives of homeless elders in Boston. It examines the concerns uppermost in the minds of the homeless including the art of integrating their past lives into the values and milieu of their current homeless situation. Concern about the reinstitutionalization of the mentally ill in public shelters, domiciles once reserved for the older alcoholic, the pressures and stress of shelter life, victimization, the shrinking supply of SRO units, and the role of alcohol are also examined. Considered in detail are various coping strategies and supports utilized by older adults in their survival roofless. …
Getting Power Back: Court Restoration Of Executive Authority In Boston City Government, Marcy M. Murninghan
Getting Power Back: Court Restoration Of Executive Authority In Boston City Government, Marcy M. Murninghan
New England Journal of Public Policy
This article chronicles some of the events that occurred when a state and a federal court attempted to disengage from active jurisdiction over two Boston public systems: the public schools and the Boston Housing Authority (BHA). It makes three proposals which, if enacted, would help to keep the courts out of day-to-day management of municipal operations. It also makes some generalizations about the court-agency interplay which are relevant to the postremedial phase of institutional reform litigation. The author uses the term restorative law to describe this court-controlled process of returning power to the executive branch.