This New England

We'll be a hearing a lot more of this excuse: The AP reports that a Colorado man named James Comstock has pleaded guilty to trying to haul 170 pounds of marijuana to make a sale near a bar near Yale University, in New Haven, Conn. Police say he needed the money to help pay his soaring mortgage.

Ah, those variable rates would make anybody turn to drugs.

Coals to Newcastle

Wouldn't it be nice if rich people gave more to places that weren't rich! The Fogg Museum at Harvard, a university that has about a $30 billlion endowment, has received $45 million and 31 major works of art, including three paintings by Picasso, from
Class of 1936 alumna Emily Rauh Pulitzer, a former curator there and wife of the late Joseph Pulitzer Jr. What a pleasant surprise it would have been if she had given it to some college with a lot of low-income students who could have been introduced to art. But that's not prestigious enough....

McMansions among the moose

Plum Creek Timber Co. is pressing ahead for a development plan for Maine's Moosehead Lake region that calls for nearly 1,000 house lots and two large resorts. So much for the North Woods. The hunters aren't going to like this.

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jeff said:

In re: creative financing in Colorado -- Gives new meaning to the Comstock Load, eh? Maybe got the idea from the guy who tried to buy his Big Mac with a bag of pot...but it all raises the question: who really has the law on his side when push comes to shove, the predatory lender or the modern medicine man?

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