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May 2009 Archives
11:43 AM Sun, May 31, 2009 | Permalink |
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Photo and caption by WILLIAM MORGAN This detail of the Ze-gen experimental gasification plant in New Bedford speaks of the potential of a new clean energy source for New England, while being an object of beauty in its own......
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5:40 PM Fri, May 29, 2009 | Permalink |
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I've been amused that colleges and universities seeking to avoid being taxed by cash-strapped municipalities in New England usually cite the fact that the higher-education indusry has been one of the few job creators in these parts in the......
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4:42 PM Thu, May 28, 2009 | Permalink |
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By DAVID WARSH David Warsh is a long-time journalist and economic historian based in Boston. He is the proprietor of economicprincipals.com. BOSTON Last September, when Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson first described to a startled world his $700 billion plan......
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2:56 PM Thu, May 28, 2009 | Permalink |
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"Marsh,'' acrylic painting by Robert Thornton, now at the Bert Gallery, in Providence. XXX According to James Warren, formerly a big journalist at the Chicago Tribune, a whole bunch of newspaper poohbahs are meeting today outside of Chicago to......
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5:46 PM Wed, May 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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"Mount Mansfield, Vermont,'' by Sanford Robinson Gifford (1859). Vermont knows how its bread is buttered. Despite the recession and numerous state budget cutbacks it will spend $6 million on improving its state parks this year, even as many other......
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6:01 PM Tue, May 26, 2009 | Permalink |
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Logan Airport may get a lot more competition in a couple of years. Federal aviation officials endorse a plan to extend the main runway at T.F. Green Airport, in Warwick, R.I., to 8,700 feet so it can handle flights......
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8:40 AM Tue, May 26, 2009 | Permalink |
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I see that the Republicans have been raking in more money during the last few months than the Democrats despite President Obama's popularity and Democratic dominance of Congress. I wonder how much of that is from panicky for-profit health-insurance......
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10:11 AM Mon, May 25, 2009 | Permalink |
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-- Photo by C. Davis Fogg Kate on Boston Harbor.......
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5:39 PM Fri, May 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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Economic crisis may be all around, but state legislatures manage to spend time on, well, issues that are not exactly urgent. Consider a bill in the Maine legislature that bans using "squaw,'' or any derivation of it, in Pine......
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6:20 PM Thu, May 21, 2009 | Permalink |
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The way you wear your hat, The way you sip your tea, The mem'ry of all that -- No, no! They can't take away from me! -- Ira Gershwin So many New England cities used to have nifty occupational......
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10:36 AM Thu, May 21, 2009 | Permalink |
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Katherine Caputo, 4, clearly has the right attitude for what is culturally, if not yet meteorologically, the start of summer in these parts -- the Memorial Day weekend. Miss Caputo, of Darien, Conn., enjoys wildlife on the shore of......
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6:55 PM Wed, May 20, 2009 | Permalink |
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The New Hampshire legislature has approved banning text messaging and typing on laptops while driving. It's unclear if Gov. John Lynch will sign the legislation. This is a tough decision in the "Live Free or Die'' state, but these......
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9:21 AM Wed, May 20, 2009 | Permalink |
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And so it begins. The Newport Daily News will soon bar access to its Web site except for paid subscribers. You'll see a wave of this sort of thing this year among U.S. daily newspapers -- stressed by a......
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7:04 PM Tue, May 19, 2009 | Permalink |
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All hail this lovely new book by retired scientist and now artist Kathryn Kleekamp, of Sandwich. Stock up now for summer-visitor gifts. XXX New England did okay in the government's list of 50 counties or municipalities in the U.S.......
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7:57 AM Tue, May 19, 2009 | Permalink |
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From Liz Collins's current show, called "Knitting Nation,'' at AS220 (93 Mathewson St., in downtown Providence). She'll talk about her work at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 21, at AS220 in an event free and open to the public.......
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5:27 PM Mon, May 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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''Mount Washington from the Valley of Conway'' (1869), by Hudson River School genius John Frederick Kensett. How long, or Lord, will people continue to go hiking as lazy ignoramuses in the White Mountains and then have to be rescued......
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4:15 PM Mon, May 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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Photo and caption by CHARLES PINNING Manny (Ramirez) meets fan(ny). On the beach at Pensacola, Fla.......
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8:34 AM Mon, May 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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Photo and caption by WILLIAM MORGAN (edited by Robert Whitcomb) The simple dressing rooms by the beach at Warren's Point Club, in Little Compton, give a sense of summers past along the Rhode Island shore: cedar shingles, sand-worn boards,......
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5:53 PM Fri, May 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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"Some of the Camp,'' a painting by NANCY S. WHITCOMB Summer is coming. Man the boats! XXX Back to the internal-combustion engine: Does this hint at the beginnings of the erosion of the primacy of the automobile, and/or a......
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6:16 PM Tue, May 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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This is a passionate plug for Bryant University's World Trade Day, Thursday, May 21, at the university's Smithfield, R.I., campus. Policy experts, scholars, business leaders and government leaders will talk about the world economic crisis and its effects on......
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6:17 PM Mon, May 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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Word that the WGBH show This Old House is starting to film its 30th season is a reminder of the great charm of New England's houses, and the range of the history behind them. That one of houses that......
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11:31 AM Sun, May 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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-- Photo and caption by WILLIAM MORGAN Masquerading as a garden ornament in Glocester, R.I., this stainless-steel beauty might be mistaken for a futuristic ruffed grouse in the attack mode. Or perhaps a small space ship -- Jules Verne......
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5:10 PM Fri, May 08, 2009 | Permalink |
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''Flye Point, Maine,'' by New England painter Paul Crimi. (www.paulcrimifinearts.com) Maine -- such a lovely coast, but such cold water! paul@pauldavidcimi.com......
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9:12 AM Fri, May 08, 2009 | Permalink |
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-- "Sailing,'' by Hilda Gorenstein Hilda Gorenstein was a very well-known and distinguished Chicago-based painter whose artist name was "Hilgos.'' She had something of a national following. After she developed Alzheimer's disease, in her 80s, and at the encouragement......
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6:27 PM Thu, May 07, 2009 | Permalink |
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No one except Mitt Romney and his immediate family seem to know his official residence, now that he has sold his mansion in Belmont, Mass. He's still got his weekend/summer place in Wolfeboro, N.H., on Lake Winnipesaukee and a......
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3:42 PM Wed, May 06, 2009 | Permalink |
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"Binary,'' by Ben Watkins -- oil on inlaid wood. At AS220 Gallery, in Providence, in June. XXX Times have changed. And we've often rewound the clock Since the Puritans got a shock When they landed on Plymouth Rock. If......
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12:17 PM Tue, May 05, 2009 | Permalink |
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, ''Woman and Child,'' a springy watercolor by Sydney Burleigh (1953-1931), at the Bert Gallery, in Providence. XXX Consider this notice at Brown University. Sadly, as William Morgan notes, it irresponsibly fails to warn students that breathing will be prohibited......
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5:07 PM Mon, May 04, 2009 | Permalink |
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For an interesting panorama of Rhode Island's problems, read "Little Rhody in the Red,'' in the current issue of The Economist, whose print (and of course online) edition is read around the world. It's bracing to see this stuff......
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11:59 AM Sun, May 03, 2009 | Permalink |
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-- Photo and caption by WILLIAM MORGAN Death's heads, cross bones, hour glasses (a typical sentiment in the Concord, Mass., cemetery reads: "Redeem your hours, My glass is run, And so must yours''), and body-less seraphim all contribute to......
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9:01 AM Sun, May 03, 2009 | Permalink |
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The BOSTON GLOBE FIRED ITS READERS BY DAVID WARSH David Warsh is a journalist, economic historian and owner of the Web site www.economicprincipals.com. BOSTON A newspaper's authority derives ultimately from its prosperity. So it was more bad news last......
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5:59 PM Fri, May 01, 2009 | Permalink |
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The Black Death, in the Toggenburg Bible (1411). How will the flu pandemic, if that's what it is, affect college commencements, of which New England famously has many? Will the usual groups of thousands of people be broken up......
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