from The Boston Globe

Driving down Central Avenue, one of the main drags of this leafy hamlet, I used to curse Deval Patrick. The governor has been this town’s most famous resident, and yet in the four years I have lived here, Central Avenue has been an embarrassment of a thoroughfare, an uneven patchwork of potholes and torn-up asphalt. The streets of Boston, where I used to live, have seen better. (Read the full story here.)