The World This Week: Al Gored

The ink was barely dry on the Nobel Peace Prize proclamation when the American media went into attack mode. "This will not stand," they seemed to collectively insist. "We thought we had successfully destroyed 'Al Bore, The Ozone Man.' How dare...

What Do You Think?

Wetland Laws ToughTom Vannah ("No Time to Relax," Oct. 4, 2007) stated that some residents felt that the Massachusetts wetlands protection laws were onerous. It would be best to shed some light on those attitudes. Consider a lot or tract of rural land 400...

Missing, Not in Action

IIn 1991 Rafael López, a truly gracious and gallant man who worked to help elect John Olver to Congress, told a local reporter he wanted see a more responsive representation for Latinos. Back then Olver's spokesman, Michael Meehan, issued a guilt-ridden...

First Shot: Blue Sky, Clean Streams

The federal Environmental Protection Agency, Massachusetts, and seven other states, together with 14 environmental groups, have just won an historic victory in federal court in Ohio. In 1999, under the Clinton administration, those plaintiffs, led by the Justice...
Eight Years Too Late

Eight Years Too Late

Now he tells us. Alan Greenspan has come out from behind the cloud of gas where he had hidden himself for the past couple of decades to say in public what he should have said years ago when it might have mattered. In his book, Greenspan complains that the Bush...