From the WashPost, this story about planning issues in Boston: As giant storms hammer Boston, officials are doing little to prepare for them.

Of special concern is that the once-in-a-generation flooding has now happened twice in two months.

For a metropolitan areas that includes many fine academic institutions,the state capital, and federal regional offices it is baffling to the Diva why the local planning processes are so inadequate.  Then again the area is famous for its political conflicts.