The first line of this Steven Pearlstein column in the July 1 Washington Post caught my eye because of my interest in New England (especially 19th century) history: “The battle has been going on since at least the 1880s, when the first New England textile mills began moving production to the Carolinas.” Pearlstein, the 2008 […]
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Interpreting the Supreme Court’s health reform ruling
Certainly two of the best places to go to try to deconstruct the Supremes’ landmark decision Thursday: http://www.scotusblog.com/ and http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/ And, not to miss an opportunity — The Mirror will continue covering reverberations of the ruling — particularly in how it affects Connecticut residents and businesses — in the days to come.
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Let Germany, not Greece, bow out of the euro zone
Red Jahncke, president of business consulting firm, the Townsend Group International LLC in Greenwich, is a euro-crisis contrarian. But he makes an interesting case, as this opinion piece on Bloomberg View shows.
Posted inEnergy & Environment
Take a deep breath and thank Reggi
Power plant carbon dioxide emissions down through the cap-and-trade program in the Northeast (known as the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, or reggi)? By 23 percent, according to the NYTimes’ Green blog? We’ll take that!
Posted inHealth
Mickey Mouse loves his vegetables
First Michelle Obama. Then New York’s Mayor Bloomberg. Now Disney is pushing more healthful eating, according to the Financial Times. Will we see Lady and the Tramp spooning over quinoa, rather than spaghetti? Disney chief executive Michael Iger is quoted, “We’ve taken steps across our company to support better choices for families, and now we’re […]
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CT Mirror deepens partnership with WNPR, plans more education forums
From the start, our goal has been to offer readers information on Connecticut policies and politics. And we’ve been making a few changes to keep on track.
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18 Hospital Executives Earn Over $1 Million
The website C-HIT.org reports today that top execs at 18 of the state’s hospitals are doing very, very, very well in the compensation area. Check here.
Posted inEnergy & Environment
Defense and the environment: There’s no contradiction here
Global environmental writer and former New York Times reporter Andrew C. Revkin writes a blog for the newspaper, Dot Earth. Revkin’s covered many of the earth’s environmental hot spots over the years — Amazon rainforests, the transformation of the Arctic, Katrina, etc. — and so he’s worth reading. Wednesday’s blog, however, is Defense Secretary Leon […]
Posted inPolitics
Maybe I don’t care if you pulled yourself up by your bootstraps
This Boston Globe column (which made today’s Atlantic Wire) sort of lets you make of it what you will. But Jeff Jacoby’s point that all politicians have to do is to stress a Horatio Alger narrative in order to wow voters — how they live their lives is less important — is a pretty good […]
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Venturing into veganism
New York Times health columnist Tara Parker-Pope this week explores the challenges that new devotees of veganism can face in a meat-based world. Online, go here.
Posted inMoney
The ‘bleeding up’ of wealth hurts the younger generation
Author and Esquire columnist Stephen Marche offers a sobering way of looking at the federal budget article in the April issue, “The War Against Youth.” If you’re under 30, you will be fascinated, and unamused. Best rhetorical question in the article: “Who wants to bring up that the old are eating the young at the […]
Posted inPolitics
Tuesday is Occupy New Haven’s last day
Occupied New Haven Green to be un-Occupied, judge rules. http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/occupynewruling/
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Lieberman, McCain & Lindsay Graham on staying the course in Afghanistan
Three members of the Senate Armed Services Committee say it’s in the country’s best security interests to keep U.S. troops in Afghanistan. The three argue on the opinion page of The Washington Post: “Significant military progress has been made in Afghanistan — progress that we have personally witnessed over repeated visits. Four years ago, southern […]
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Capitalism in Crisis — Why can’t we figure this out?
Capitalism in Crisis A breakdown of three major political/analytical views on what’s happening out there in our economy. The Financial Times’ Washington bureau chief Edward Luce explains who’s espousing what views, what we can look forward to. So to speak.
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A Different Kind of March Madness
A Different Kind of March Madness Brian Hallenbeck, The Day’s longtime casinos’ reporter, writes today, “Those who advocate for problem gamblers knew what they were doing when they scheduled the annual week devoted to educating the public about the warning signs of problem gambling. They placed it right before this week’s start of the NCAA […]