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...days in back-to-back meetings with gas producers. One of her first appointments was Marty Rutherford, Irwin's deputy, who agreed to act in Irwin's old job until Irwin could return a few months later. The two veterans joined with another Palin appointee, revenue commissioner Pat Galvin, to form what everyone in Alaska politics simply calls the "gas team." Their job: get the pipeline built...
...team went overboard. "They had a tendency to be preachy," says Larry Persily, who worked in Palin's Washington office. "They are true believers, zealots even." Irwin defends the hard line: "People in Alaska are tired of being pushed around by oil and gas companies." Palin's approach, Galvin says, "represented a fundamental shift in the entire relationship between the state and companies...
Reacting to Harvard’s plan to bury Soldiers Field Road and build a new pedestrian bridge across the Charles, Massachusetts Secretary of State William F. Galvin was quoted in The Boston Globe as making the nonsensical, inflammatory remark, “The University is treating the river like some moat that they own.” Only a politician with deep-seated animosity towards our fair University would openly deride such an ingenious plan to beautify Boston at no taxpayer expense. It should come as little surprise that Galvin sports a thick Boston accent...
Tragically, this is just the sort of irrational opposition Harvard is bound to face as it marches into Allston. As a University, we will need to bridge the town-gown cultural divide if we wish to minimize the number of impediments politicos such as Galvin will surely impose. Banishing the letter “r” from campus is a sure-fire way to start...
...earlier this month, Massachusetts Secretary of State William F. Galvin told the State House News Service that he thinks the initiative would include convenience stores. “There’s no requirement of quantity and no requirement as to the size of the premise,” he said...