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Evergreen shifts work to China

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Boston Globe - By Erin Ailworth - Nov. 07 (News Report) - 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 its assembly of solar panels from there to China.

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With tax break, a big carbon footprint

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Boston Globe - By Edward L. Glaeser - Nov. 05 (Opinion) - 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 housing have long encouraged Americans to emit more carbon. President Obama could do the country, and the planet, a service by either refusing to sign the extension of the $8,000 credit or by insisting that it be accompanied by offsetting reductions in the home mortgage interest deduction.

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Obama may face fight on treaties

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Globe - By Bender, Bryan - Oct. 25 (Opinion) - 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 treaties to the US Senate, where skepticism ...Questions for Thorbjorn Jagland Peace Be With YouNew York TimesWSJIDEBATE: Was It Premature to Honor Obama with the Nobel Peace Prize?Wall Street JournalObama Gets 'Incomplete' as Decisions on War, Joblessness LoomBloombergBellingham Herald?-Niles Daily Star?-The MIT Techall 165 news articles??

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China leaving US behind in green energy

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Globe - By Joan Fitzgerald - Oct. 22 (Opinion) - Though aspects of it may violate the WTO, China has a coherent industrial policy to capture global leadership, while US initiatives are fragmented. China recognized that the real economic development potential in renewable energy is in manufacturing, which comprises 70 -75 percent of the jobs in solar, and now has more than 100 solar companies that account for one-third of global solar component production.

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Inside the troubled and dangerous Pakistan

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Globe - By Chuck Leddy - Oct. 19 (Other) - "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 is increasingly controlled by the Taliban (Muslim extremists) and is the suspected hiding place of Osama bin Laden. American journalist Nicholas Schmidle spent two years in this troubled country, watching Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf attempt to hold on to his military dictatorship amid challenges from both secular, pro-democracy reformers and pro-Taliban Islamic extremists".

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Welcome to the gilded age of poverty chic

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Globe - By Renée Loth - Oct. 16 (Opinion) - Welcome to the gilded age of poverty chic

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No more troops to Afghanistan

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Globe - By H.D.S. Greenway - Sep. 22 -

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Project ‘Gaydar’: An MIT experiment raises new questions about online privacy

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Globe - By Carolyn Y. Johnson - Sep. 21 (Special Report) - 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. They did this with a software program that looked at the gender and sexuality of a person’s friends and, using statistical analysis, made a prediction. The two students had no way of checking all of their predictions, but based on their own knowledge outside the Facebook world, their computer program appeared quite accurate for men, they said. People may be effectively “outing” themselves just by the virtual company they keep.

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Long-term unemployment numbers in US reach record of 5 million

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Globe - By Robert Gavin - Sep. 07 (News Report) - ... 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 economists expect the national unemployment rate, now 9.7 percent, to top 10 percent before peaking next year.

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The work of rescuing our work

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Globe - By James Carroll - Sep. 07 (Opinion) - 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 humans relate to work itself.

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Cheney rejoins battle over interrogations

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Globe - Aug. 25 (News) - 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 critics. Cheney has been the most vocal defender of the Bush administration's

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The truth behind Afghan insurgency

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Globe - By Ralph Lopez - Aug. 18 (Opinion) - 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 unemployment, working for the Taliban is the only job in town.

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At N.H. forum, Obama hits ‘wild’ criticism of healthcare overhaul

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Globe - By Lisa Wangsness, Nandini Jayakrishna - Aug. 12 (News Report) - President Obama traveled to a town hall meeting in a high school gymnasium here yesterday to counter what he called “wild misrepresentations’’ about his proposed healthcare overhaul - his most concerted effort yet to regain momentum in a debate recently dominated by critics’ aggressive assault.

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The dangers of a carbon trade war

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Globe - By Michael A. Levi - Aug. 12 (Opinion) - Climate policy and trade policy are on a collision course. And the last thing we need is a carbon trade war with dubious benefits.

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Protests set on Obama N.H. talk

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Globe - Aug. 11 (News Report) - President Obama’s town hall meeting on healthcare at 1 p.m. today before about 1,800 people in Portsmouth, N.H., will almost certainly be less of a free-for-all than the raucous congressional ones, filled with shouting matches, pushing and shoving, and even some arrests.

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In Puerto Rico, Sotomayor’s rise sends signal of hope

Sun, 09 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Globe - By Bryan Bender - Aug. 09 (News Report) - “I find it ironic that the Obama administration nominated a Puerto Rican judge who identifies with Puerto Rico, a place that is legally subject to discriminatory law,’’ he said. “Judge Sotomayor represents a citizenry that is partially excluded from the political process.’’

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Where our defense money goes

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Globe - By Bob Edgar, Bill Goodfellow - Aug. 05 (Opinion) - 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 the 2010 defense authorization bill. Earmarks direct money to a specific program or company in a member’s district for something that has not been requested by the Pentagon and has not been subject to any public review or hearing. It is a gift from a member to a constituent, a gesture that usually is repaid with a generous campaign contribution.

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Democrats talking up healthcare overhaul to target insurers

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Globe - By Lisa Wangsness - Aug. 04 (News Report) - Congressional Democrats - under assault from Republicans who say their approach to healthcare overhaul is too expensive, rushed, and heavy-handed - are heading into the summer recess with a target of their own: insurers.

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All right, everybody, let’s cool off

Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Globe - By Derrick Z. Jackson - Jul. 25 (Opinion) - Crowley should never have arrested Gates for being upset at lingering police presence in his home, having proved it was his. But Crowley’s history is that he’s not a rogue policeman. Gates calling him one on national TV Wednesday blurred the line between the act and the man.

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Wal-Mart using its clout to go green

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Globe - By Scott Kirsner - Jul. 20 (News Report) - Wal-Mart’s unilateral decision to put its purchasing and communication power behind going green also shows that a single company using its unique clout can accelerate public action to reduce greenhouse gases and reverse climate change. By rolling out an environmental labeling program disclosing to consumers the environmental costs of making products sold at Wal-Mart, the $401 billion retail behemoth has transformed green standards from nice-to-have to must-have.

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For a fee, company will buy back your electronics

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Globe - Jul. 19 (News Report) - The idea of short-term rentals has become so pervasive that it has made its way to an unlikely retail sector: the world of small consumer electronics. Consumers who want a new cellphone, flat-screen television, or iPod every six months to a year can get them from Los Angeles-based TechForward Inc. Founder and chief executive Jade Van Doren said he got the idea in 2005 while traveling in Japan, where he noticed the high rate of turnover for cellphones. “Even in the US, people are upgrading electronics very quickly,’’ he said. “People are getting a new iPod every year or two, and they’re upgrading their cellphones even faster. For most of us, the old device ends up in a drawer somewhere, so I saw an opportunity to build a business around a guaranteed buyback program.’’

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The next conservative thinkers

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Globe - By Drake Bennett - Jul. 13 (Special Report) - 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 deeper sense of crisis: a worry within the movement that the Republican Party has lost its identity as the party of ideas.

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In Sotomayor hearings, GOP seeking to send message to Obama

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Globe - By Joseph Williams - Jul. 13 (News Report) - 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 racial issues - a strategy intended to send a message to President Obama in deciding future nominations: Think twice before picking a liberal.

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Plenty of countries get healthcare right

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Globe - By Jonathan Cohn - Jul. 05 (Opinion) - “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 healthcare reform. But it could have been virtually any other Republican, not to mention any number of sympathetic interest groups, because that’s the party line for many who oppose healthcare reform. If President Obama and his supporters get their way, this argument goes, healthcare in America will start to look like healthcare overseas. Yes, maybe everybody will have insurance. But people will have to wait in long lines. And when they are done waiting in line, the care won’t be very good. Typically the people making these arguments are basing their analysis on one of two countries, Canada and England, where such descriptions hold at least some truth. Although the people in both countries receive pretty good healthcare - their citizens do better than Americans in many important respects - they are also subjected to longer waits for specialty care and tighter limits on some advanced treatments.

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The hurdles to expanded healthcare

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Globe - By Scot Lehigh - Jun. 17 (Opinion) - Here’s the political problem for Democrats: They don’t have the 60 Senate votes needed to end a filibuster. And even if they did have 60 Democratic members or Democratic-leaning votes, they probably wouldn’t have that margin for that type of a public plan, since a number of moderate Democrats have expressed opposition or skepticism.

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