The mayor of Boston has no say in what gets built on a major green space running through the city, but the state Turnpike Authority does. It doesn't make sense.

At issue is the privately funded, proposed Armenian memorial that will be built near Christopher Columbus Park. Everyone is against it, but no matter.

"It's going there," said Fred Yalouris, director of urban architecture for the Big Dig. "The only question is the design, and what the inscriptions are."

Director of urban architecture for the Big Dig? Now that's quite a title.