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Environmental concerns dominated discussion at last night’s Cambridge City Council meeting. If all goes as planned, solar power will soon be beaming in to Cambridge’s Andrew Peabody School, City Manager Robert W. Healy said at the meeting. The city is seeking a Clean Energy Choice grant from the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, a state agency that promotes development of green energy. The grants, which will be awarded next May, allot a minimum of $100,000 for renewable energy and energy efficiency measures in municipal buildings that serve low income residents. The Peabody school qualifies...
...Massachusetts Public Health Council unanimously approved legislation last week slapping stricter scrutiny on hospitals seeking to build new facilities—a move that is nearly certain to affect future expansion plans by Harvard Medical School’s 15 affiliated teaching hospitals. The measure—which is driven by concerns of rising health care costs and competition placed on local community health centers by Boston’s many prestigious hospitals—forces companies to prove to state officials that their proposed facilities do not duplicate local services. Urban costs and overcrowding have made the suburbs prime...
...proposed auto-industry bailout was discussed, however. Paulson met with General Motors chief Rick Wagoner in October, and he held conversations with Keith Hennessey, the head of Bush's National Economic Council (NEC), Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez and others over the phone in the days after the election. Yet there was not sufficient disagreement between the men to warrant a full meeting...
...even with the backing of Basra's influential tribal sheikhs and the Fadila Party, winning a majority won't be easy in the face of concerted opposition from Maliki's Dawa Party and his sometime ally-sometime foe Sadr. Less certain is the reaction from the Supreme Council, which has long favored a semi-autonomous nine-province "super region" in the south (which it would have a fair shot at governing) rather than a smaller one in Basra, governed by Fadila. "We are not participating in this because we are busy with other things," says parliamentarian Redha Taki, the head...
...they don't want to do that without the approval of all of the country's main groups - Sunnis, Shi'ites and Kurds. "We are not prepared to approve this, the Shi'ites and Kurds alone," said lawmaker Redha Taki, a member of the Shi'ite Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council. "By democratic means we are able to, but it's not good. We want consensus. We need consensus...