If the Obama administration approves the permit for this pipeline, it will put us over the edge toward catastrophic, irreversible climate change. Continue reading
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SOAPBOX: SANDY STARTED SOMETHING
But with the exception of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s eleventh hour endorsement of President Obama, politicians have been eerily silent in the face of the fervor of the press and online soapboxes. The election having so recently occurred, there’s plenty of time to find excuses to not talk about it until the next go around. Continue reading
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BEAN COUNTER: VOLUME 14, ISSUE 26
Mayor Thomas Menino reportedly favors a plan to add a shopping center to the Boston Public Library’s Copley Square branch. The mayor fielded questions about his office’s desperation to raise revenue with city-owned properties by offering to guess one reporter’s weight for a dollar. Continue reading
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PAINTING THE (HONORABLE SENATOR) BROWN GREEN
After the T turned down their ad in favor of such virtuous and non-contentious copy as Apocalypse 2011 and California CryoBank sperm donation, local environmentalists called Senator Brown out on the streets of downtown over his votes on the EPA and Clean Air Act. Continue reading
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THE ECONOMICS OF HAPPINESS
According to The Economics of Happiness, even large corporations are trying to rebrand themselves as local. Continue reading
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