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After Schrag, economics professor Edward L. Glaeser, the director of the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston, discussed the emissions associated with different forms of urban development. Several other prominent environmental leaders, including the Chief of Environmental and Energy Services in Boston, James W. Hunt III, also spoke at the conference...
...enjoying a 108-year gap between Democratic governors. "It was a gray Republican backwater; being a Democrat meant FDR had appointed you to the post office," says John McLaughry, a former state legislator and Reagan Administration advisor who runs the free-market Ethan Allen Institute. An influx of urban refugees and hippie escapists from New York and Massachusetts in the 1960s and 1970s changed everything. Soon Vermont had ski resorts, billboard bans, chi-chi restaurants, yoga retreats, and liberal Democrats. "That was the kickoff for our spurt into the future," McLaughry says, with more than a hint of disapproval...
When Yeltsin ruled Russia, urban intellectuals were optimistic about the future and the possibilities of democratic change. Most other Russians, however, sank into despair as the economy withered and the state's assets were handed out to corrupt insiders. Under Putin, attitudes have flipped. Now it's the intellectuals who are disgusted with his administration's habitual disregard for democracy, its tendency to harass opposition figures and intimidate media outlets that dare to criticize the state. Average Russians, on the other hand, seem mostly to accept Putin's grand bargain: I'll improve your standard of living if you keep...
...societies as an invite-only retail experience.” In this “Final Club” of hipster gear, members can lounge and check out limited release items, which are not open to the public. If you’re tired of American Apparel creepsters and Urban Outfitter knock-offs, Concepts—with a well designed store, helpful employees, and cutting-edge product—will be a welcomed addition to Harvard Square retail. Hopefully the future will bring more stores following this “concept” and fewer burrito joints...
...socially conservative supporters on the SBOE election that has raised concerns in some quarters. Longtime Texas Republicans like Royal Masset, a former political director of the Texas Republican Party, fear that if moderate Republicans leave the party to support Barack Obama - and there is some local polling in major urban areas to suggest that may happen - it will reinforce the hold the social conservatives and the religious right has on the state party's apparatus...