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According to a report by the Charles River Associates, the creation of wind farms would reduce the cost of electricity in New England by $185 million per year and $4.6 billion over 25 years. In the process, it will also create jobs in manufacturing and assembling, among other areas. Given the current state of the economy, job-creating initiatives are vital. Considering New England’s January and February unemployment rates, which show a widespread increase, Cape Wind provides a perfect opportunity to reverse such trends...
...What They're Broadcasting in Georgia: Georgian residents received a shock on March 13 when a national television station broadcast a phony news report claiming that Russia had invaded the country and killed President Mikheil Saakashvili. Except for a brief initial disclaimer, nothing in the broadcast indicated it was a spoof. The panic was exacerbated by memories of an actual invasion by Russian troops in late...
...even larger share of Hispanics, including my Venezuelan-American wife, is expected to report "Other," "Hispanic" or "Latino" in the race section of the 2010 census forms being mailed to U.S. homes this month. What makes it all the more confusing if not frustrating to them is that Washington continues to insist on those forms that "Hispanic origins are not races." If the Census Bureau lists Filipino and even Samoan as distinct races, Hispanics wonder why they - the product of half a millennium of New World miscegenation - aren't considered a race too. "It's a very big issue," says...
...describe the intricate skeins of mutual interest, cultural heritage and sometimes gloopy sentiment that bind Washington and London. Globalization and "shifts in geopolitical power" mean that both countries are inevitably forming new and deep alliances with other players, and talk of a "special relationship" is increasingly misleading, says the report. "The overuse of the phrase by some politicians and many in the media serves simultaneously to devalue its meaning and to raise unrealistic expectations about the benefits the relationship can deliver to the U.K." (See the top 10 most outrageous MP expense claims...
...Britain weighed in on the wider impact of that policy. "The perception that the British Government was a subservient 'poodle' to the U.S. Administration leading up to the period of the invasion of Iraq and its aftermath is widespread both among the British public and overseas," states a report from the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee. "This perception, whatever its relation to reality, is deeply damaging to the reputation and interests...