Boston Globe
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The Boston Globe (and Boston Sunday Globe) is the most widely circulated daily newspaper in Boston, Massachusetts and New England. Owned by The New York Times Company, the broadsheet Globe's local print rival is the tabloid Boston Herald. The Globe was founded in 1872 by six Boston businessmen, led by Eben Jordan, who jointly invested $150,000. The first issue was published March 4, 1872 and cost four cents. It was originally a morning daily when it began Sunday publication in 1877. In 1878, The Globe started an afternoon edition called The Boston Evening Globe, which ceased ... More » (Source: Wikipedia)
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Audience:
Large audience (500K-1M) (English)
Scope:
International
Political Viewpoint:
Neutral viewpoint
Owners:
The New York Times Company | Managers: The New York Times Company
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Related Publications:
New York Times
Location:
Boston, MA, US
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Edited By:
Ezra Fox
Last Edit:
Sep 18, 2007 - 3:34 PM PDT
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China leaving US behind in green energy
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Project ‘Gaydar’: An MIT experiment raises new questions about online privacy
Using data from the social network Facebook, they made a striking discovery: just by looking at a person’s online friends, they could predict whether the person was gay. ...via MuckRack -
Long-term unemployment numbers in US reach record of 5 million
... the average bout of unemployment has reached 25 weeks, the longest since the end of World War II, and is likely to increase as the jobless rate goes higher. Most ...via Boston Globe -
Where our defense money goes
The same week the Senate voted to cut funding for additional F-22s, for a savings of $1.75 billion, the Senate Armed Services Committee added another $9 billion in earmarks to ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
The next conservative thinkers
Politically, they’re in the wilderness, with Barack Obama’s popularity stubbornly high, and wide Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress. But there’s also a ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
In Sotomayor hearings, GOP seeking to send message to Obama
When hearings begin today on the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the US Supreme Court, Republicans on the Senate committee plan to portray her as apart from the mainstream on ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
Plenty of countries get healthcare right
“I don't want America to begin rationing care to their citizens in the way these other countries do.” That was Arizona Senator Jon Kyl, speaking last month about ...Posted by Leo Romero -
Political odd-fellows on school reform
(Blog Post) It might be the only subject that could draw all of them to a White House meeting, but the oddest of political bedfellows met with President Obama today on education reform. ...Posted by Kristin Gorski -
Are human rights still a Democratic priority?
To Democrats of a certain age, such a question might seem incomprehensible. After all, it was a Democrat, John F. Kennedy, whose inaugural address proclaimed "to friend and ...Posted by Leo Romero -
Times Co. threatens to shut Globe; seeks $20m in cuts from unions
The New York Times Co. has threatened to shut The Boston Globe unless the newspaper's unions swiftly agree to $20 million in concessions, union leaders said yesterday.Posted by Derek Hawkins
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Evergreen shifts work to China
Little more than a year after cutting the ribbon at a new factory in Devens built with more than $58 million in state aid, Evergreen Solar said yesterday that it will shift ...via NewsRack -
With tax break, a big carbon footprint
ENVIRONMENTALISTS who are worried about global warming should pay attention to the congressional debate about extending the home buyers tax credit. Federal tax policies toward ...via NewsRack -
Obama may face fight on treaties
President Obama's vision of global cooperation - symbolized by his surprise Nobel Peace Prize - is in for a crucial test in the months ahead when he begins sending a series of ...Posted by Jo Bobenhouse Smith -
Inside the troubled and dangerous Pakistan
"Pakistan, the deeply troubled US ally bordering both Iran and Afghanistan, may be the next crisis facing US foreign policymakers. The country’s mountainous northwest region ...Posted by Emma Asomba -
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No more troops to Afghanistan
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The work of rescuing our work
What’s missing is language in which to express the sneaking suspicion that beneath today’s massive economic dislocation is some kind of species-changing shift in the way ...via AllTop -
Cheney rejoins battle over interrogations
The release of the CIA inspector general's report on interrogations of suspected terrorists is restoking the battle between former Vice President Dick Cheney and his many ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
The truth behind Afghan insurgency
The dirty little secret is that the renewed Taliban insurgency could have been avoided. The vast majority of Afghans still hate the Taliban. But in a nation with 40 percent ...via AllTop -
The dangers of a carbon trade war
Climate policy and trade policy are on a collision course. And the last thing we need is a carbon trade war with dubious benefits.via AllTop
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