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Is global warming due to sulfur and not carbon
/7 Comments/in Blog, News /byA great post by DA Mittell on his new blog (welcome to the blogosphere, Mr. Mittell!), where he delves into the work by Dr. Peter Langdon Ward on volcanic activity, sulfur and global warming. I quote at length, because there is no snipping where Mittell is concerned: A year ago, I had the privilege as a mere editorialist of reading, along with scientists of several disciplines, the draft of a paper on the causes of global warming written by Massachusetts native Dr. Peter Langdon Ward. Dr. Ward studied earthquakes, plate tectonics and volcanoes for 27 years at the U.S Geological Survey. Viewing climate change over the whole history of the Earth, Dr. Ward noticed that warming patterns have appeared consistently […]
Lincoln 200 and the US History MCAS requirement
/0 Comments/in Blog, News /byAnne Neal of the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) has a beautiful letter she sent out today. It begins: Anniversaries and birthdays—humble and not so humble—give all of us occasion to celebrate and to give thanks. Today, we celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of our 16th president, Abraham Lincoln, who so eloquently understood that America’s founding documents embody not just abstract propositions but living, breathing principles that unite us as a people. In his speech at Peoria on October 16, 1854, Lincoln called for Americans, to “re-adopt the Declaration of Independence, and with it, the practices, and policy, which harmonize with it.” It was time, he said, that “all Americans—…all lovers of liberty everywhere—join in the […]
Breaking News in Boston is Yesterday's News in Worcester
/0 Comments/in Blog, Blog: Better Government, News /byThe Globe has been cranking out articles touting the virtues of the new Virgin America service from Logan, particularly the spiffy upscale planes (including a servicey graphic). I can assure you that all the hype about the planes is true, because I flew on one of them last year, out of Worcester Airport. Turns out that the Virgin America planes have been flying in and out of that airport for several months, chartered by Direct Air.
Somehow, Some Ideas Just Never Die
/2 Comments/in Better Government, Blog, News /by Liam DayAn editorial this morning in the Herald revealed that Congressman Lynch is pushing for funding to develop a plan to dig a rail link between North and South Stations in the forthcoming federal stimulus bill. Yet another billion(s)-dollar tunnel beneath the City of Boston that will drown out any discussion of transportation reform and Hoover up the funding required to achieve it, dish out millions in mitigation to affected communities and utilities, and serve exactly what demand? Do we really want to go through all of this again?
Boston School Choice Surprise
/0 Comments/in Blog, Blog: Better Government, News /byI’ve written previously on the Boston school lottery and last week was an eventful one. In 2004, a blue ribbon panel looked at the Boston School Assignment system, floated a few proposals (like six zones), but ultimately decided not to make wholesale changes. (The chair of that panel, incidentally, called for a complete end to busing, and thus the assignment zones by my reading, a few weeks ago in the Globe. In last year’s State of the City address, Mayor Menino called on the school department to reexamine the zone assignment systems for savings. And then, with no lead up or hearings, the School Department released its FY10 budget cutting plan with a five zone school assignment proposal. It’s interesting […]