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...nagging worry surrounding Howard and Costello's fiscal pitch is not that the good times will one day end (they will). It's an unease that not enough is being done right now to improve the productivity and, hence, the living standards of future generations. The Commonwealth is debt-free; Howard and Costello have cut government debt with the relish one only sees in workaholic couples who are under the spell of their bank manager's mortgage repayment simulator. So what is a 10-year-old, extremely fortunate administration doing to underwrite a splendid future...
...economics at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The study, “Paying for College: The Rising Cost of Higher Education,” found that college related expenses have increased by 7 percent since the 1992-1993 academic year. Co-sponsored by Massachusetts Institute for New Commonwealth (MassINC) and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, the study also noted that families are paying more for public colleges, from 18% of their income in 1992-1993 to 21 percent in 2003-2004. Ian A. Bowles ’87, President and CEO of MassINC, says that his company decided...
...massive I-93 superstructure that snakes its way through what was once the city’s prime real estate. There is an urgent need for expanded public transit in this area, but the Romney administration has so far offered only manipulative lip service and obfuscation. Last May, the Commonwealth loudly announced that it was going to begin the project, only to quietly indicate seven months later that there would be a three-year delay before any construction began. And it’s not just Somerville that is being shortchanged by Romney’s disregard for the Commonwealth?...
...ability to put everyone at ease and has a phenomenal memory for places and people. The Duke of Edinburgh is still a ball of energy and, yes, thankfully, still positively flirtatious - though not inappropriately. They have given a lifetime of service not only to Britain and the Commonwealth but also to the whole world by their example of steadfastness, courage and sense of family and loyalty. We should cherish them. Christine Richard Edinburgh Having grown accustomed to your derogatory, ill-informed and prejudiced articles on the royal family, usually relegated to the People page, I was surprised by the balance...
Sources: AP; Chicago Tribune; Commonwealth Fund; U.S. Census Bureau; Lancet (2); AP; Oregon Department of Human Services...