ROBERT LANG: Humorist Will Rogers once famously observed that people should buy land because “they don’t make it anymore.” That message resonates with home buyers in some of the nation’s most land constrained metropolitan areas. The National Association of Realtors’ house price data for 2004 shows price spikes in places where land supplies are short [...]
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BIG BUSINESS INSOURCING PUBLIC AFFAIRS?
CURT JOHNSON: In Boston last week, I ran into David Luberoff, who’s just been named to succeed Charles Euchner at Harvard’s Rappaport Center. Luberoff handed me a working paper entitled Civic Leadership and the Big Dig (PDF). My oxymoron meter must have flashed because he quickly said, “No, this is really worth looking at. It’s [...]