As a native midwesterner I know that my state of birth is a fly-over state. A friend once put it this way “Oh yeah, you’re from one of those semi-square states between here and California.” Little did he know that at night back home they recline in lawn chairs by their personal lake shore and point binocs toward the stars and call out “There’s United 0223 on time headed to San Jose.”
I wonder if the folks in Worcester, Auburn and Springfield don’t do their own version of the mid-coastal fly-over. Personally, I’d like to know more about what’s going on in mid-Massachusetts.
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I remember hearing something about a snag, but I’m not sure how it was resolved.
(it was outstanding litigation that had to be settled first)
From the T&G’s own reports. he is looking for the right, preferably local, buyer.
And with all due respect to your fine metro Boston selves, I’d rather we didn’t become another addendum to your Metro section.
I’d be content if the headline and lede were reliably true.
Headlines that are simple lies — such as “Health law projected to put dent in workforce” in Wednesday’s Globe — belong in the Herald or the Daily News.
I understand and accept that every person has a point of view, and the Globe is owned by an individual. I do NOT accept that such power includes the right to misinform the public about issues of objective fact.
John W. Henry should insist that his publications tell the truth.
…but my understanding is that the headline you cite is correct. “Put dent in” is more neutral than “throw people out of”. The former just says numbers will go down, which is projected to happen by people leaving their jobs they no longer need to be covered. The latter says that the law will force people into the unemployment line. Sure, “allow people to leave” might have been an even better verb phrase, but I would judge what was used to be the truth.