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November 2008 Archives
5:13 PM Sun, Nov 30, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Penelope Manzella, from ''Lost in Pawtucket series,'' 2008......
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12:35 PM Sun, Nov 30, 2008 | Permalink |
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This is by Nancy Gaucher-Thomas, who creates out of a studio in East Greenwich, where people can see her paintings by appointment. Her work can also be seen at Gallery 297, in Bristol, and in Charlestown Gallery.......
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10:42 AM Sat, Nov 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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The Ocean Energy Institute, a tiny research organization founded by investment honcho Matthew Simmons, wants to build a 5-gigawatt wind farm in the Gulf of Maine making electricity equivalent to that created by five nuclear-power plants! Mr. Simmons doesn't......
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9:04 AM Sat, Nov 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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A bit of good news for newspapers. A bunch of Connecticut state legislators is asking the Nutmeg State's economic-development commissioner to prevent two daily newspapers, one in New Britain and one in Bristol, from closing. The Journal Register Co.......
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9:44 AM Thu, Nov 27, 2008 | Permalink |
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Maine XIX, by Gretchen Dow Simpson A mood-soothing picture for this sometimes jovial, sometimes claustrophobic and ultimately wearisome day. Go take a walk under the bare branches.......
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6:18 PM Wed, Nov 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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Nantucket, like Martha's Vineyard, is considered such a summer place that it might surprise people that many go there in the off-season, when it's at its most beautiful, if a bit drafty. Consider Vice President-elect Joseph Biden, who says......
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12:05 PM Wed, Nov 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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Is the Internet good for journalism? In general, not yet. That's because it doesn't pay most of the "journalists'' who write for it. These writers grab factoids, add some opinion and push the button. There is not the discipline......
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10:48 AM Sat, Nov 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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"The Harlot's Progress, '' by William Hogarth I had to laugh at the recent Connecticut crackdown on people using craigslist for prostitution. Just look at the ads in many "counter-culture'' weekly newspapers targeted mostly at teens and young adults.......
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10:00 AM Sat, Nov 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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"Cuttyhunk,'' one of the many New England images of famed Pawtucket-based painter Gretchen Dow Simpson (www.gretchendowsimpson.com). From time to time, I'll run the work of New England artists in this blog.......
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12:51 PM Fri, Nov 21, 2008 | Permalink |
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The public-corruption-investigation industry is thriving in Massachusetts. The latest news: Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner was arrested by the FBI after allegedly being videotaped for taking a $1,000 bribe from an undercover agent. In general, the more solid a......
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6:35 PM Thu, Nov 20, 2008 | Permalink |
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Here's a sign of the times: The iconic Harvard Square newsstand and meeting spot, the Out of Town News, which the owner says is no longer profitable, may soon close as people continue to cut back on buying newspapers......
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6:21 PM Mon, Nov 17, 2008 | Permalink |
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The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ruled that police can't use a general fear of pit bulls in itself as a reason to enter a home without knocking. But the court ruled that if police have additional reasons to......
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5:43 PM Fri, Nov 14, 2008 | Permalink |
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With college endowments tanking and tuitions and fees surging, I plug the New England Board of Higher Education's (NEBHE) Dec. 5 conference at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston: "Higher Education in a Troubled Economy: How New England's Colleges......
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10:02 PM Wed, Nov 12, 2008 | Permalink |
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The people who run the National Museum of American Illustration, Judy and Laurence Cutler, have come out with a new book -- this one entitled J.C. Leyendecker, about that illustrator of lifestyle dreams in the first half of the......
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1:10 PM Tue, Nov 11, 2008 | Permalink |
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This is the golden time of year when the last of the beautiful leaves drop from the beautiful trees -- and then everything is ruined as yard crews and languid homeowners get out their shrieking leaf blowers and create......
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11:17 AM Sun, Nov 09, 2008 | Permalink |
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Courtesy Dartmouth Jackolantern When Obama was elected last Tuesday, daily newspapers sold out, as people rushed out to buy a keepsake. Printing out a Web page just doesn't do the trick when it comes to historic moments.......
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9:03 AM Fri, Nov 07, 2008 | Permalink |
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The tendency of too many media to hype too many events based entirely on the fact that they're happening right now (like a TV station leading its news broadcast with a car crash) leads to something I'd call the......
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6:37 PM Wed, Nov 05, 2008 | Permalink |
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Bernard Beckwith and Christian Simpson were fined $200 each after being found guilty of indecent exposure for jumping naked into Maine's Moosehead Lake last summer after the Black Frog Restaurant in Greenville offered a free prime-rib sandwich to skinny-dipping......
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11:00 PM Tue, Nov 04, 2008 | Permalink |
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Republicans file out after McCain's concession speech. Picture by Nancy Spears. What was most surprising to me about the Obama victory was how well McCain did. If the Arizona senator had not had the bad luck of the financial......
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9:37 AM Tue, Nov 04, 2008 | Permalink |
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Some polling places are still working on real-time details. At Temple Beth-El on Providence's East Side there was a very long line this morning as hundreds showed up at 7 to vote. The line was especially long because while there......
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4:12 PM Mon, Nov 03, 2008 | Permalink |
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John McCain and Barack Obama have many policy differences, albeit in that broad area known as the American center. But they have at least one thing in common: Despite the big economic and other challenges facing America, neither one......
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9:45 AM Sat, Nov 01, 2008 | Permalink |
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Republican reorganization For McCain to win the election next Tuesday would make Truman's victory over Dewey in '48 look easy. Governor Palin, for her part, already seems to be running to oust Obama in 2012 -- assuming she can......
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