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Renfrew made a name for herself as an entrepreneur when she acquired The Wedding List, a company she turned into an innovative wedding-gift-and-registry Web-centric business that she then sold to Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia in 2001. She followed that stint with six months of volunteering in South Africa and several consulting gigs at small businesses like designer Vivienne Tam and retailer Intermix...
...they have run into oppositionl. In Massachusetts, the proposed Nantucket Sound project drew initial objections from Martha's Vineyard notables like Walter Cronkite. But their opposition was muted by the guarantee of thorough federal and state oversight. In Texas, however, there is little regulatory oversight of the projects, and so the fight is being taken to state courthouses and pitting neighbor against neighbor. The first lawsuit is set to begin in this week in Abilene as 18 residents of Taylor County sue their neighbors and FPL Energy, claiming the wind turbines are a public nuisance that spoil their views, create...
Fresh off her victory in November, Massachusetts Attorney General-elect Martha Coakley has already begun fattening her campaign coffers again in very public fashion. This despite the fact that Coakley barely spent any money on a campaign that ran uncontested in the Democratic primary and only faced token Republican opposition in the general election...
...This is not to assume that Martha Coakley will be unduly influenced by the nature of her funding. Her tough-minded yet fair prosecutorial record would suggest otherwise. I would not even be surprised if she refused such donations upon being sworn in, following the model of Eliot Spitzer, who refused donations from companies he had dealings with while Attorney General of New York. (Although, as of press time, the Coakley campaign had not responded to a request for her to clarify her position on this issue...
...children with AIDS, it has been harder for clinics to get and use a common antibiotic to prevent pneumonia and other ills in HIV-positive children who don't yet need ARVs. "One of the biggest obstacles in treating children has been having a consistent guardian," says Dr. Martha Sommers, head of clinical services at Embangweni Hospital, a church-run facility in rural Malawi. "Often the guardian is sick or dying, or the children are orphans and getting passed from one guardian to the next...