As FEMA’s Sandy Cleanup Continues, Questions Arise About Long-Term Help Political leaders from the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast have not been shy about their intent to seek as much federal funding as possible for their storm-struck states. Damages and lost economic activity as a result of Hurricane Sandy have been estimated as high as $50 billion. If the past is any guide, there are likely to […]
Do Good C.E.O.’s Make Good Presidents? With only a few weeks remaining until the election, it’s still not clear how Mitt Romney would manage our jobs crisis. There aren’t many lessons from his term as the governor of Massachusetts — the economy was comparatively healthy back then, and the unemployment rate was fairly low. His current economic platform lays out broad […]
Will Penn State Sanctions Work? Boston’s Collegiate Community Reacts AUDIO: In the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal, today the NCAA ordered Penn State to pay $60 million and stripped the late Penn State coach Joe Paterno of many of his college victories. The college will also be prohibited from participating in post-season play for four years. NCAA president Mark Emmert […]
The Inquisitr Was Mass Murderer James Holmes Mentally Ill Or Seeking Revenge? Experts Disagree Is a mass murderer like James Holmes, the suspect in the shooting at an Aurora, Colorado movie theater that killed 12 people and wounded 59 others, mentally ill or simply seeking revenge for perceived wrongs? Experts who study the motivation of mass murderers disagree on the answer. According to James Alan Fox, a criminal justice […]
Must Penn State Cleanse? Though it would have seemed unthinkable before last week, the situation at Pennsylvania State University, where a respected former assistant football coach used his connections to the program to draw in the young boys whom he later raped on campus property, was even worse than anyone imagined. Worse because not only did administrators and coaches […]
The Christian Science Monitor Amid unusually widespread drought, warnings on food prices Americans are probably already seeing the drought’s impact, and it will get worse before it gets better, says Jeff Born, a finance professor and director of the executive MBA program at Northeastern University in Boston. He visited parts of the afflicted area a couple of weeks ago and says there has been no significant relief with rain. He points out […]
MSNBC.com Jury pool shrinks in Rutgers webcam spying case The jury pool for the trial of a former Rutgers University student accused of using a webcam to spy on his roommate’s intimate encounter with another man was cut Tuesday after the judge reviewed answers from questionnaires.
Romney didn’t wreck his state’s economy. But he didn’t save it, either. The Massachusetts economy wasnât in great shape during the early aughts. As Mitt Romney’s opponents like to point out, the Bay State ranked 47th out of 50 states in terms of job creation from 2003 to 2007. It was only one of two states to have no growth in its resident labor force between 2002 […]