How Much Will the Boston Lockdown Cost?

Long after the streets, squares and businesses of Boston spring back to life, and the Red Sox games resume at Fenway Park, the debate will go on: was Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick right to ask Boston residents to stay inside under a "shelter-in-place" order beginning Friday morning?

The responses at this early stage vary widely. With suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev still at large after a firefight with police early this morning -- and said to be armed and dangerous -- Patrick evidently feels that the "lockdown," as it has been called, is a matter of public safety. But there has been ample speculation that shutting down the nation's 10th largest metro area to find a 19-year-old may be an overreaction, and a poor show of resilience: when the city shuts down, the thinking goes, the terrorists win.