Ann Berwick writes in today's Boston Globe that Gov. Charlie Baker has so far overlooked a huge potential made-in-Massachusetts energy source: Offshore wind. As Massachusetts has fallen behind Rhode Island, where construction is already … [Read more...]
Archives for November 11, 2015
Thank you to all our Veterans
John McCrae wrote the best tribute I can think of over a century ago as a Canadian WWI Medic. It also reminds us that this holiday is an international observance commemorating the end to one of the worst wars in human history. In Flanders … [Read more...]
I Don’t Want Affordable Health Care!
Let me be clear, I don’t want affordable health care. I want health care. Affordable health care implies that when I need it, I have to reach into my wallet and pay for it, as I would do with an affordable lunch or affordable pair of … [Read more...]
The Bond Between War and Football: It Started Right Here
(Veterans' Day thoughts on the Pentagon's Paid-Patriotism.) Re: the Globe story last week that much of the military-inspired pageantry at football games is a recruitment effort paid for by the Department of Defense. The teams on the … [Read more...]