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...freshman year. Why on Earth we chose to make that 18-hour drive, I’ll never know. Well, that’s not entirely true: I was starting a new adventure.In the picture, I’m standing in front of a “Welcome to Massachusetts?? sign at the Connecticut border. My hands are stuffed in my pockets. If you look closely enough, you can see a hint of fear-tinged-excitement in my eyes as I prepared to arrive on the campus that would forever change my life.I knew it was going...
Last January, Massachusetts??s House and Senate passed legislation to promote green energy with minimal costs to consumers. The bill was mostly progressive and earned applause from environmental groups, but there remains one major flaw. In addition to wind, solar, ocean current, geothermic, and hydroelectric power initiatives, Massachusetts is slated to pass incentives for “clean coal” power plants.One breakthrough provision in Massachusetts??s green energy bill would require a portion of electricity sold in Massachusetts to be derived from “renewable” and “alternative?...
...article in last Sunday’s Boston Globe revealed that less affluent communities in Massachusetts??including Springfield, Leominster, and Fitchburg—witnessed a marked increase in teen pregnancies in 2006, even as statewide, the same rate dropped two percent. Amid speculation about cultural causes and cuts to health education, the article concedes that there is no explanation for the increase—that, moreover, it may be nothing more than a “blip.” There is no clear evidence that this year’s uptick in teen pregnancy is anything more...
...affiliated with Harvard Medical School, is in dire financial straits and looking to eliminate up to 300 jobs next year, third-year medical students who are enrolled in the alliance’s hospital-training program will not be affected, officials said. The CHA acknowledge this week that Massachusetts?? pioneering health care reform law has left it with the burden of treating patients without insurance, but without providing adequate reimbursements to the alliance. The CHA has freezed hiring and cut discretionary spending to curb its losses. Still, the alliance, which includes Cambridge Hospital and two others...
...designed to aid the biotechnology industry, spur job development, and entice talented professors and researchers to the Bay State’s state universities. The bill would provide $500 million for lab construction and $250 million for research grants and post-doctoral education at the University of Massachusetts?? Worcester and Amherst campuses. The remaining $250 million would be allocated for tax credits to life sciences firms. The bill will have significant impacts on university-based and urban economies including Cambridge and Boston which both have burgeoning biotech industries. Newly elected Massachusetts State Senator Anthony D. Galluccio, who represents...