It might have helped had Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino taken all of two minutes to Google “downtown Detroit” before trashing the Motor City.

The University of Massachusetts Boston has the potential to spark a development boom that could do for Morrissey Boulevard in Dorchester what Boston University did for Kenmore Square and Commonwealth Ave.

Boston mayoral contender Marty Walsh is a big cheese in local labor circles, having run the powerful Boston Building Trades, which goes to bat for the ironworkers, laborers, crane operators and other union hard hats putting up all those new towers.

Why are home prices in Massachusetts consistently some of the highest in the nation?

Boston City Hall sits astride the downtown of one the world’s greatest cities like a twisted tribute to East German architecture, a Stalinist-style bunker in the birthplace of modern democracy.

Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino’s bold vision of tens of thousands of new homes, apartments and condos puts to shame the mean-spirited NIMBYs who increasingly dominate towns and suburbs across the state.

The Bay State’s old mill cities and factory towns have long been a bastion of relatively affordable homes and apartments in one of the most expensive states in the country to live in.

As new housing construction sinks to record lows across Massachusetts, a few national giants are grabbing an increasingly larger share of a shrinking market.

Is John Henry the white knight the embattled newspaper industry so desperately needs, or a sharp-eyed businessman eager to exploit the Globe’s lucrative patch of Boston real estate and the many “synergies” created by joint ownership of New England’s favorite sports team and its leading media outlet?

Forget about all the happy talk about how rising interest rates will gently bring skyrocketing home prices back to earth.

Apparently, Boston isn’t interested in luring back all those boring old suburbanites, what with their retro four-wheeled pollution machines and their environmentally burdensome rug rats in tow.

The election of a new mayor will trigger a shakeup in Boston’s highly competitive development scene, with a new wave of builders set to take the lead in the years ahead.

Things aren’t looking so hot right now for Suffolk Downs and its dreams of hitting the casino jackpot, what with Las Vegas tycoon Steve Wynn hogging the spotlight with a rival bid and its top backer, Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino, headed for retirement.

It’s finally time to sink or swim for the Innovation District, Seaport, South Boston Waterfront, insert-your-preferred-name-here neighborhood.

From the Seaport to the Fenway to the North End, a bevy of super-ambitious developers want to redraw Boston’s skyline with dazzling new skyscrapers.

It’s well more than four decades since the Bay State passed a sweeping law meant to bust up snob zoning, but the snobs and their warped zoning are still with us.