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NewEnglanders should be much healthier

New England has basked in national attention ever since Massachusetts's big breakthrough - the agreement to require everyone to buy health insurance, to provide new, state-subsidized private health-care policies and to cajole non-participating employers. Many states are considering parallel moves. Last month, Vermont legislators jumped on the bandwagon offering coverage to virtually… 0

June 9, 2006
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Time to re-link the region with railroad

After steady decline across the 20th century, could passenger rail service in New England be ready for revival - a timely response to gridlocked highways and spiraling oil and gas prices? A few hopeful straws are flying in the wind. The Connecticut legislature just approved a $2.3 billion transportation package including money to start commuter rail service from New Haven, through… 0

May 29, 2006
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New jobs and housing - without ugly sprawl

A near-miracle in New England town government occurred a dozen miles outside Boston last summer. By votes topping two-thirds - legally required and tough to muster -the town meetings in Abington and Rockland, and the Weymouth town council, agreed on a single, path-breaking redevelopment plan for the now largely vacant South Weymouth Naval Station. 0

May 16, 2006
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High energy costs threaten New England

The New England Governors' Conference meets in Newport, R.I., this week. It has made energy its top agenda item. As well it might. Even before post-Katrina price spikes hit, New England's six states were energy orphans, at the end of the pipelines, obliged to import virtually all their oil, natural gas or coal. They're second only to Hawaii in vulnerability to import cutoffs or… 0

May 8, 2006
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