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Gulf Dead Zone The Size Of Massachusetts
NEW ORLEANS — Scientists say this year that the “dead zone” area that forms every summer in the Gulf of Mexico is one of the largest ever measured.The large area of low oxygen that chokes marine life comes in addition to the massive BP oil spill…. Continue reading
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Olympia Snowe Says She’ll Vote For Financial Reform
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sens. Olympia Snowe and Scott Brown pushed sweeping financial legislation to the edge of final passage Monday, both announcing they intend to support the regulatory overhaul despite initial misgivings.Snowe of Maine and Brown of Mass… Continue reading
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Ethnic Food: Farmers Find A Future In Immigrant Vegetables
SOUTH DEERFIELD, Mass. (AP) — Maxixe, a Brazilian relative of the cucumber, is relatively unknown in the U.S., but it may one day be as common as cilantro as farmers and consumers embrace more so-called ethnic vegetables.Agriculture experts at the Uni… Continue reading
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The Next Financial Crisis: Coming to Your Neighborhood Soon?
Jane D’AristaSAFER & Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts, AmherstMore… Continue reading
Gail Huff, Scott Brown’s Wife, Gets DC TV Reporting Job
Gail Huff, wife of Massachusetts senator Scott Brown and long-time television reporter in Boston, is now joining her husband in the nation’s capital. Huff has gotten a part-time job at Washington, D.C.-based station WJLA.According to the Washington Pos… Continue reading
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No One Smiles in Atlantic City
Until a few weeks ago, I didn’t care enough about casinos coming to Massachusetts. Yes, I knew they transferred money from the poor to the rich. I realized fleecing the elderly to pave roads was wrong. But still, I didn’t pay it much mind.Then I visite… Continue reading
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The Michael Jordan of Bailouts
Based on John Kerry’s 2004 declaration that “I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it,” you could credibly argue that the Massachusetts Democrat is the founder of modern political flip-flopping — the James Naismith of the political world’s most dazzling sport. By that metric, though, you would also have to acknowledge that Kentucky Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell is the game’s Michael Jordan.
As the upper chamber’s GOP leader, McConnell backed the Wall Street bailout in 2008, calling it “one of the finest moments in the history of the Senate.” A year and a half later, he was telling reporters that he vehemently opposes bailouts of big business.
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Ann Curry Mixes Up Wheaton Colleges In Commencement Address
In her address to Wheaton College’s Class of 2010, “Today” Show anchor Ann Curry mistakenly confused the Wheaton she was at, in Massachusetts, with a college of the same name in Illinois.
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Deep Sixing Derivatives Reform: Stop the Cave-in!
Jane D’Arista and Gerald Epstein
SAFER and Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Massachusetts Voters Take Over Sen. Scott Brown’s Office
A few hours ago, I joined over one hundred grassroots leaders from the Alliance to Develop Power as they stormed the Capitol office of Sen. Scott Brown to demand a meeting. When Brown was elected, he promised to be a “big tent Republican” and represent all of Massachusetts. Since his election, the Alliance to Develop Power and hundreds of other grassroots organizations have placed calls, sent letters and even held a press conference to request a meeting with Brown. Their requests have gone ignored.
So a hundred-plus everyday folks from Massachusetts, already in town to protest how big bank lobbyists are trying to kill financial reform and our economic recovery, paid a visit to their newly-elected Senator to ask him to live up to his “big tent” promises.
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