This New England
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Massachusetts is buying a train line from CSX transportation to expand rail commuter service between Boston and Worcester and, let us pray, to ease the way for commuter service between Boston, Fall River and New Bedford. (What about Providence?) The state will pay $100 million -- a lot cheaper than what it would take to maintain roads in the area to handle the cars of people who have no trains to take. Rail lines are cheaper than superhighways. It's wonderful life? The First National Bank of Orwell (unfortunate town name), the smallest bank in Vermont, may be a new model for a financial institutions after the bad behavior of some of the mega-banks that have come to dominate the country in recent years. CBS News has even visited the institution, characterized by rock-ribbed rectitude. And the bank's officers actually know their customers. Will small is beautful make a comeback in finance? They still like the parents Former President George Bush and his wife, Barbara, have joined in the dedication of a $5 million library named for them at the University of New England, in Biddeford, Maine. The library will include items from the Bush family's summer home in nearby Kennebunkport -- the couple's main connection with the state. (What do their children think of these giveaways?) I suspect that it will be some time before any major buildings in overwhelmingly Democratic New England are named after their son George W., a native son of Connecticut who transformed himself into a Texas good ole boy. Granite State GOP gulps SRBI Research has found that New Hampshire Democratic Senate candidate Jeanne Shaheen leads Republican Sen. John Sununu by 49 to 35 percent, in yet another sign of the crash of the GOP in what was once a bastion. Perhaps somebody will invent a new party to represent the fiscally conservative but rather socially liberal views that once characterized New England Republicanism. A two-party system would be nice. Verbal abuse It was a race in repulsion between Sarah Palin's relentless populistic dropping of "g's'' and Joe Biden's constant cozy (or unctuous) references to "John" (McCain) and "Barack" ( the one and only) in the debate Thursday. But he clearly knows a lot more than she does!
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Recommended reading or re-reading: "Small is Beautiful (Economics as if People Mattered)" by the late British economist, E.F. Schumacher. Originally published, 1973.
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The dropped "g's" did not bother me as much as her "Eye-rack" for Iraq
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The dropped "g's" did not bother me as much as her "Eye-rack" for Iraq
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Neither pronunciation bothers me nearly as much as Obama's "Pock-E-Ston."
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But, Mario, that's the correct pronunciation.
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And Frahnce is what the French call their country. Here, it's an affectation.
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