From Richard Nixon's efforts to divide poor whites & blacks to Ronald Reagan's open "Cadillac welfare queens" race-baiting to the Romney/Ryan 47% and makers/takers, using race to divide working-class whites from working-class blacks has … [Read more...]
Judge: Falmouth Wind Turbines Cause “Dental Injuries”
Barnstable County Superior Court Judge Christopher Muse, an actual, existing, sitting judge with real power over real people's lives, has declared wind turbines cause dental injuries: Neil and Elizabeth Andersen, who live about a quarter … [Read more...]
JFK & Our Environment: “We All Breathe the Same Air”
Some suggested reading on the 50th anniversary of JFK's assassination: John F. Kennedy, the Cold War and Echoes of the Climate Change Challenge, Yale Forum on Climate Change & the Media Rachel Carson and JFK, an Environmental Tag … [Read more...]
Solution to Guns on Campus: MORE Guns on Campus!
Armed police couldn't prevent the Navy Yard shootings. An armed security guard couldn't prevent the Columbine massacre. A swarm of armed police arrived at the Virginia Tech shooting site within 3 minutes of the first 911 call, only to find … [Read more...]
Climate Deniers, Super Typhoon Haiyan Is Looking At You
One year after superstorm Sandy became the largest Atlantic hurricane on record, Super Typhoon Haiyan just became the strongest landfalling tropical cyclone on record, hitting the Philippines with sustained winds of 190-195mph and gusts to … [Read more...]
MA Voters Keep Rejecting Wind Turbine Restrictions
Once again, voters have rejected new local restrictions on wind turbines. The latest landslide in favor of clean energy came at Saturday's Plymouth Town Meeting: If approved, this article would have limited the construction of wind … [Read more...]
Air Pollution Now Officially a Carcinogen, But Some Towns Still Fighting Clean Energy
As the World Health Organization declares definitively that air pollution causes cancer, the Massachusetts town of Shelburne has declared the real threat to the public is looking at wind turbines. Shelburne is just a few miles up the … [Read more...]
Massport Won’t Say Climate Change, Won’t Say Why
Massport took another step forward in its long-term plan to confront the impacts of climate change last week ... but there was something missing from its news release: As the Massachusetts Port Authority develops its long range strategic … [Read more...]
Big New England Wind Contract Much Cheaper Than Coal, Nuclear
What if the debate about Environmental Protection Agency limits on climate-disrupting carbon pollution was all hot air? What if the falling cost of clean energy has already planted a stake in coal's polluting heart? As Erin Ailsworth of … [Read more...]
Plymouth Zoning Board Ignores Law, Blocks Wind Turbine
If you're going to deny a local business the right to do what it wants on its own property, shouldn't you have an actual reason? Not according to the Plymouth Zoning Board, which rejected a local Stop & Shop's request to build a wind … [Read more...]
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