November 17th, 2008
This guest post is from Mary Jo Manzanares, b5media’s Travel & Culture Channel Editor and travel blogger at Flyaway Cafe.
I love college campuses, even though it’s been many years since I spent any time as a student on one.
I love the buildings, and the libraries, and the bookstores. I love checking out the architecture and […]
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November 11th, 2008
Today’s guest post is from Mary Jo Manzanares, b5media’s Travel & Culture Channel Editor and travel blogger at Flyaway Cafe.
Have you noticed how the nights are getting just a little bit cooler? And in the mornings, there’s starting to be a little crispness in the air.
When the weather gets like this, I start thinking about […]
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February 8th, 2008
If you plan to travel to Boston this winter or already live in the area, do yourself a huge favor and make sure to protect yourself against seasonal influenza, also known as simply the flu. The flu season is hitting the Bay State, in addition to ten others [PDF], particularly hard this year, resulting […]
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January 23rd, 2008
Officials at the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency announced a bit of a change for area residents and visitors on Tuesday. In cooperation with the Council of Massachusetts United Ways, the organization has started operating a new emergency telephone number, namely 211.
One major point of the service is to decrease the number of non-emergency calls […]
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December 13th, 2007
Last Saturday in the post “Happy Birthday, Charlie!,” I wrote about the first birthday of Boston’s CharlieCard transit payment system. The innovative “smart card” contains an electronic chip that allows passengers to preload money and then tap their payment when boarding public transportation instead of swiping or inserting it. If a passenger has […]
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December 5th, 2007
I knew it!
The results of a recent study titled Footloose and Fancy Free: A Field Survey of Walkable Urban Places in the Top 30 U.S. Metropolitan Areas confirmed what I’ve suspected for quite some time: Boston is one of the best locations in the United States to live if you enjoy walking. The city […]
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