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...measure enjoys overwhelming support among City Council members, two of whom are gay, as well as the support of Mayor Adrian Fenty, virtually guaranteeing its passage. However, due to an archaic and unjust constitutional clause granting congressional veto power over all of DC’s local legislation, the bill??s fate is far from determined...
...Deval L. Patrick ’78 presented a draft wind-energy plan. This plan would allow wind farms to be constructed in state waters along the coast, away from environmentally sensitive areas. The federal government is also actively supporting wind projects throughout the country. Plus, the Waxman-Markey bill??if passed—will cap carbon dioxide emissions. The blueprint for wind-energy production has been put in place. It is time to start making more definite plans...
...discuss climate change and greenhouse-gas emissions. In my opinion, now is the time for the city to consider an offshore wind farm. By constructing offshore wind farms in the outer reaches of Boston Harbor, the region will position itself to meet the requirements of the pending Waxman-Markey bill??or other future federal legislation that caps greenhouse-gas emissions...
...which I generally tend to agree with more, President Obama is now doing quite gracefully what many during the campaign feared he could not: He is playing the savvy realist, and not only in terms of maneuvering legislation. The president’s approach may produce an imperfect bill??but it is more likely to return trust in Washington than a stubborn strategy that would produce no bill...
...process when they weren’t going to vote for a Democrat-sponsored bill anyway, he made a point of praising the “Blue Dog” Democrats for strengthening what he called “one of the very best parts of this bill??: a provision that the government would help defray small businesses’ health insurance costs. “We need a few new jobs in this country after Bush got through with us for eight years,” he said, citing that small businesses produce 80 percent of America?...