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...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 turf for hospital expansion. “Many [community hospitals] can benefit from...
Unfortunately, the primary obstacle to fixing our infrastructure is exactly the problem that anyone still reading is facing; infrastructure is profoundly, unequivocally, and utterly unexciting. There are no union-like picketers banding together to rally for the local toll road. There are no passionate highway rights activists waging sit-ins until freeways receive the new lanes they need to survive. There are no “Save the Bridges” campaigns, and no “I Stand with Route 84” bumper stickers. Despite the staggering number of people served by any individual road or bridge (except...
Furthermore, a citizenry that is generally unmoved by the infrastructure mission means that few local politicians are willing to take it up. Why would a state senator forgo championing funding for social services, education, or welfare, and the valuable voter support that comes with it, in favor of an infrastructure overhaul that most constituents don’t even understand the necessity of? The answer is that he or she would not and do not, leading to a precarious rotting of the infrastructure network that forms the arteries and veins connecting our nation’s vital organs...
...Four years on, Outpost Hokianga, which Strathdee calls "a general store for the 21st century," is situated in a converted post office, and it's thriving. Products include her own designs, such as cargo pants reimagined in opulent Chinese silks, innovative jewelry, and gourmet food, like pesto made by local producers and balsamic vinegar imported from a former fashion manufacturer in Italy. While price is no concern to shoppers who have driven some two hours over switchback roads from The Lodge at Kauri Cliffs, the nearest five-star accommodation, Strathdee makes sure not to exclude the local community. "Prices start...
...Other districts simply transfer inadequate teachers to other schools in what Calif. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has called "the dance of the lemons." Former Mass. Gov. William Weld tried to pass legislation requiring teachers to take competency tests every five years, a move that triggered a number of complaints from local teachers' unions who called the bill adversarial and intrusive. Weld defended himself by explaining his stance as "anti-slob teacher," not "anti-teacher...