This New England

And dismayed!

12:43 PM Thu, Oct 29, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

-- Photo by GRAHAM NEWHALL You'd be alarmed too if you were an old mill building in Providence whose renovation into pricey lofts was stopped by the credit crunch and recession.......

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Letting it go

12:11 PM Thu, Oct 29, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

-- Photo by CHARLES PINNING Giving up on October in Providence.......

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The senator from Aetna

9:26 AM Wed, Oct 28, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (1)
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman's opposition to the "public option'' in the health-reform program couldn't be at all connected to the fact that he's a long-term water boy for the insurance industry, much of which is based in Connecticut, could......

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The first Monadnock

6:20 PM Tue, Oct 27, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

Mt. Monadnock, in southwest New Hampshire, in a Novemberish painting done about 1900 by Williiam Preston Phelps. The peak is only 3,165 feet high but that's higher than any mountain nearby, and it rises semi-dramatically 2,000 feet from the......

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Casino just off the pike

5:01 PM Tue, Oct 27, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
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Mohegan Sun, the huge (but not as huge as Foxwoods) casino in eastern Connecticut, which, like many casinos, has been hard hit by the recession, is, like many a supermarket chain, pushing for more customers. When your profit margin......

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Charles F. Bass: Keys to GOP resurgence in the Northeast

9:58 AM Sun, Oct 25, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
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Dear readers: We're resending this to correct Mr. Bass's reference to an FDR landslide victory. It was 1936, not 1944. (Thonmas E. Dewey did better than Alf Landon!) Run with permission from The Ripon Forum By CHARLES F. BASS......

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