Author Thomas C. Palmer Jr. What Readers Like and Respond To It was a tired old column that Boston Globe editors killed in 1991. “Starts & Stops” had run for a couple of years weekly in the Metro/Region section, starting out… December 22, 1997 Digging Out News at Boston’s Big Dig Peter M. Zuk is the Project Director for what we refer to as the largest public works project under way in the United States, the Big Dig. Except for the… December 22, 1997