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Robert A. Brown, president of Boston University and Michael E. Capuano, representative in Congress for Massachusetts??€™ eighth district, were also in attendance...
Last week, Massachusetts House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo unveiled a comprehensive bill that seeks to liberalize Massachusetts??€™s gambling laws. Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78 failed in a similar effort in 2007, but the tide may be turning. Yesterday, the bill won the committee backing that it needed in order to proceed, meaning that Massachusetts may be well on its way to joining the list of over 30 other states that allow hotel casinos...
Last week—in the newest addition to the ongoing Cape Wind saga—Massachusetts??€™s top historic preservation official took a public stand against the alternative-energy project, on grounds that two Native American tribes have ties to the land and water in question. While we understand that certain natural spaces hold significance for specific groups of people, climate change poses a pressing and collective threat to the planet as a whole. It is unlikely that anyone would seek to oppose natural beauty or historic-land preservation in theory; however, such concerns must be weighed...
When Harvard nanotechnology researcher Michael P. Stopa went to the polls in 2008, there was only one name on the ballot for the Third District of Massachusetts??€™s Congressional seat—incumbent Democrat Jim McGovern...
Kirwan also announced that Maryann Bradley, a former assistant secretary in Massachusetts??€™Â Executive Office for Administration and Finance, will take on the position of FAS Associate Dean for Administrative Operations...