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Flood waters surge as states come to grips with Irene's damage

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - Aug. 31 (News Report) - Despite the sunny sky, flood warnings remained in effect Wednesday for areas of several states hard-hit by Hurricane Irene, as authorities struggled to clean up and rebuild roads and bridges in the aftermath of the storm. "Nobody that got hit with this flooding dodged a bullet," Craig Fugate, Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator, said Wednesday. "Loss of life, extensive damages, homes flooded. ... It may not have been as big a deal on the coast, but these flood areas definitely got hit hard."

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Senate race already in the gutter

Sun, 15 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Globe - By Joan Vennochi - May. 15 (Opinion) - Republican Scott Brown came out of nowhere in 2010 to win the US Senate seat held by Ted Kennedy for decades. A Democrat who comes out of nowhere could win it back in 2012. But the anti-Brown attack ad launched recently by the League of Women Voters isn’t going to help. It may thrill the liberal base, but it also threatens to chill the independent swing vote that both a Republican and a Democratic candidate need to win in Massachusetts. Why is Brown drawing attention to the League’s ad a full 18 months before election day? Not because it hurts him, but because it helps him. It reminds people of the unflattering “League of Women Vultures’’ moniker that detractors like to use to describe the organization. And, its depiction of a coughing, rasping child who is suffering because of Brown’s vote against air pollution standards illustrates the same old stereotypical scare tactics that turn off voters of all ideological persuasions.

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A vanished language returns

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Globe - Sep. 30 (News) - Baird, the 46-year old director of the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project, won a so-called “genius’’ grant this week for her initiative to revive the language of her Wampanoag ancestors.

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Cape Wind power deal brings fight to utility panel

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Jay Lindsay - Sep. 06 (News Report) - The fight over whether the country's first offshore wind farm should be built off Cape Cod moves this week to a Boston hearing room, where the project's future turns on one question: Is the price of the electricity produced by the spinning turbines a good deal? On Tuesday, hearings begin at the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities, which will decide whether utility National Grid's 15-year contract to buy half the turbines' power is good for ratepayers. Teams of lawyers will present and cross-examine witnesses over 12 days of hearings that have been previewed in hundreds of pages of written testimony. The hearings, the latest battlefield in a decade-long fight over Cape Wind, is unprecedented for the DPU. It's the first long-term power deal the agency has considered since passage of a 2008 law that requires utilities to find more renewable sources of energy. "There so much animosity," said DPU executive director Timothy Shevlin. "So it's not really routine."

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Federal, state governments establish Atlantic offshore wind energy consortium

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

oilprice.com - By Darrell Delamaide - Jun. 11 (News) - Under the new MOU, the consortium will develop an action plan setting priorities, goals, and specific recommendations for developing offshore wind energy. A new Bureau of Ocean Energy Management at Interior will oversee the development of wind and other renewable energy resources on the Outer Continental Shelf in cooperation with the states as well as other stakeholders.

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RFK's grandson decides against run for US House

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

San Francisco Chronicle - By Glen Johnson - Feb. 28 (News Report) - Joseph P. Kennedy III, the son of a former congressman and the grandson of Robert F. Kennedy, said Sunday he had decided against running for the U.S. House from Massachusetts this year. Kennedy told The Associated Press that he wants to remain in his new job as a prosecutor in Cape Cod's Barnstable County. The 29-year-old Stanford University and Harvard Law graduate has held the post only for eight months.

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All eyes on Bay State ballot

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Boston Globe - By Stephanie Ebbert, Donovan Slack, Jeannie Nuss Correspondent - Jan. 19 (News Report) - From Pittsfield to Framingham, North Andover to Dorchester, the candidates for US Senate made a last dash across the state yesterday, issuing their final pitches to voters ahead of a special election today that has drawn the eyes of the nation.

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Concerns over measure to let Bay State voters register on Election Day

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

lowellsun.com - By Jen Judson - Jan. 04 (News) - Supporters of a bill to allow Massachusetts voters to register on Election Day say it will improve citizen participation as it has in nine states that allow the system. But some municipal officials and the secretary of state worry about the cost and potential confusion.

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Massachusetts governor backs naming Kennedy successor - washingtonpost.com

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Ross Kerber - Aug. 31 (News Report) - Democrats pushed Monday to fill the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by the death of Edward Kennedy, with the Massachusetts governor throwing his support behind a proposal to name an interim successor and help Democrats retain a critical margin in the chamber.

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At N.H. forum, Obama hits ‘wild’ criticism of healthcare overhaul

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Globe - By Lisa Wangsness, Nandini Jayakrishna - Aug. 12 (News Report) - President Obama traveled to a town hall meeting in a high school gymnasium here yesterday to counter what he called “wild misrepresentations’’ about his proposed healthcare overhaul - his most concerted effort yet to regain momentum in a debate recently dominated by critics’ aggressive assault.

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Look who's rallying vs. Obama in Portsmouth

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Joan Walsh - Aug. 11 (Opinion) - I'm sure Obama is ready for the hazing Tuesday, but let's hope the mainstream media calls it what it is: an organized movement to lie about his agenda and link the various strain of paranoia to protest – and perhaps disrupt – his effort at dialogue.

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Protests set on Obama N.H. talk

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Globe - Aug. 11 (News Report) - President Obama’s town hall meeting on healthcare at 1 p.m. today before about 1,800 people in Portsmouth, N.H., will almost certainly be less of a free-for-all than the raucous congressional ones, filled with shouting matches, pushing and shoving, and even some arrests.

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Daily News investigates faked records and fatal blunders at city-run hospitals

Sun, 26 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Daily News - By Tina Moore, Benjamin Lesser, Greg B. Smith - Jul. 26 (Investigative Report) - City-run hospitals faked records and covered up dozens of botched operations, deadly accidents, malpractice and other medical screwups, a Daily News investigation has found.

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Firefighter to Take Spotlight in Sotomayor Hearings - WSJ.com

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Kristina Peterson - Jul. 13 (News Analysis) - Times OnlineFirefighter to Take Spotlight in Sotomayor HearingsWall Street JournalWASHINGTON -- Opponents of US Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor paint her as a judicial activist, yet a key protagonist in her opposition, New Haven firefighter Frank Ricci, has been an activist in his own right. ...Day One of the Sotomayor hearings: a legal perspectiveLos Angeles TimesKey terms used in Sotomayor confirmation hearingsThe Associated PressSotomayor pledges to apply not make the lawMiamiHerald.comChristian Science Monitor?-New York Daily News?-New York Timesall 8,234 news articles??

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Where’d the Money Go? : CJR

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Columbia Journalism Review - By Greg Marx - Jul. 08 (Opinion) - The New York Times today offers a dispatch on the health care debate from Maine, home of an endangered species: moderate Republican senators. The piece offers a solid look at the debate playing out among different constituencies to win the hearts and minds of Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, whose votes may determine whether key features of the reform proposal—such as a “public option” that would compete with private health care insurers—survive. And it notes that while Snowe is so far the only Senate Republican to back a public option, Collins has “expressed reservations” about such a move. But it leaves out one interesting tidbit. There’s nothing unusual in one of a state’s major companies making donations to its elected officials, of course, and Collins isn’t slavishly bound to her donors’ interests. (In fact, the story quotes one advocate who thinks the biggest influence on Collins’s vote may be Snowe’s.) But as the press tracks the health care debate, it should follow the money—and report what it finds—at every step.

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The cost of gay marriage – in dollars and cents

Wed, 27 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Kathryn Perry - May. 27 (News Report) - Maghi Geary might have some peculiar advice for Californians: Gay marriage is good for business. The co-owner of Provincetown Florist has 20 to 30 weddings booked this summer, and the reason for that decent return is evident in the next customer who walks through the door – a lesbian couple from Kansas desperately in need of some carnations for their wedding.

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Recession in Mass. forecast to last longer than in nation

Fri, 22 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Globe - By Robert Gavin - May. 22 (News Report) - The recession in Massachusetts will last longer and run deeper than in the nation as a whole, but the state may recover more quickly than it has from earlier economic downturns, according to a new forecast.

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Vermont's "Happily Ever After"

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By David Goodman - Apr. 09 (Opinion) - A swing of the gavel, an explosion of emotion from spectators in the galley and from members of the legislature who rose to their feet to clap, and same-sex marriage was legal in Vermont. It's the fourth state in the country to allow same-sex marriage—Massachusetts, Connecticut and Iowa legalized it as a result of court orders—and the first in the country to do so through a vote of its elected leaders.

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Will the New York Times put the Boston Globe out of business?

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Dan Kennedy - Apr. 07 (Opinion) - Will the Boston Globe go out of business? Almost certainly not, despite the threat issued last week by its owner, the New York Times Company, that it would shutter the plant if the Globe's unions don't cough up $20m in concessions within 30 days.

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Yankee shutdown fund bill advances

Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

rutlandherald.com - By Daniel Barlow - Mar. 21 (News Report) - The decommissioning bill – which was opposed this week by Entergy Nuclear Vermont, the state's top two utilities and the Public Service Department – is expected to appear on the House floor for a vote late next week. Rep. Tony Klein, D-East Montpelier, the chairman of the committee, said Vermonters need to be protected from the possibility that Entergy would delay the full cleanup of the Vernon facility for decades as it builds up the money in its decommissioning fund.

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Opinions that aren’t

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

hippopress.com - By Jeff Mucciarone - Feb. 19 (Interview) - Large segments of the population are un-engaged and essentially don’t have opinions on particular topics. Pollsters have to cajole people to have opinions. ... We thought maybe it was time to come up with annual dubious polling awards to try to highlight in a satirical way, somewhat humorous, some of the major failings of the polls of the last year.

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Environmental Activists Bring Coal Fight to Seacoast

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Portsmouth Herald News - By Jeanné McCartin - Feb. 05 (News Report) - There's 600 miles as the crow flies between New Hampshire and West Virginia's mountain coal country. Worlds apart. No connection beyond a national affiliation. Deb Cinamon Whalen of East Kingston, like many of her fellow New Hampshire-ites, held that view -- if she ever gave it any thought at all. But since becoming aware there's a grave thread between them, Whalen has become a connection between the states and is trying to forge an ever-greater awareness of how the two are tied together. "It's coal," she says. "Mountain Top Removal." Her interest and concern led her to Larry Gibson, a West Virginian environmental activist who has made it his calling to enlighten those outside Kayford Mountain home that we're in this together. Whalen has helped arrange a number of events featuring Gibson, here to shed light on a dark subject. "Most of us don't think we use coal. ...; But we use it for our electricity here in New Hampshire." Much of it comes directly from Mountain Top Removal (MTR), she says.

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Politics may run North End parking lot

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Boston Globe - By Kate Augusto, Matt Collette - Dec. 16 (Investigative Report) - For more than a generation, it has been perhaps Boston's most covert bargain, a city-owned parking lot in the North End where the lucky, the affluent, and the politically connected had assigned parking for just $55 a month - a rate that went unchanged for 26 years.

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Town Green - A Former Mayor Sees Regionalization as an Answer to Economic Woes - NYTimes.com

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Larry Bloom - Nov. 21 (News Report) - Can we find more economical ways to do the business of local government without giving up that strong sense of individual place and without ceding the political power to make critical decisions at the local level?

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A healthcare system badly out of balance

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Boston Globe - By Scott Allen, Marcella Bombardieri, Michael Rezendes, Thomas Farragher, Liz Kowalczyk, Jeffrey Krasner - Nov. 16 (Investigative Report) - Call it the best-kept secret in Massachusetts medicine: Health insurance companies pay a handful of hospitals far more for the same work even when there is no evidence that the higher-priced care produces healthier patients. In fact, sometimes the opposite is true: Massachusetts General Hospital, for example, earns 15 percent more than Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center for treating heart-failure patients even though government figures show that Beth Israel has for years reported lower patient death rates.

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