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GLOBAL VIEW Long a dream, fusion power may be just fi ve years away e would like that in the lab.” the hope of raising enough “You can fret all radioactive waste, no risk to get to a Dr McGuire was talk- capital to build a prototype. of meltdown, and of course “Wprototype (of ing to Aviation Week, the It’s the biggest player in US you want about no carbon dioxide emis- a nuclear fusion reactor) oldest and most widely defense-related technology, terrorism and sions – so if it is competitive in fi ve generations,” said read magazine covering the and it has a reputation to in cost, it could easily sweep Dr Thomas McGuire, the defense industry, and he protect. It would not have the other minor the fi eld. director of the Revolution- was promising a working invited Aviation Week in last complaints of Fusion power would not ary Technology division at nuclear fusion reactor that GWYNEE DYER week unless it was pretty replace the “renewables” Lockheed Martin’s famed puts out more energy than confi dent that the project our times, but (wind, solar, and “bio” Skunk Works. “If we can it consumes in fi ve years. “It will succeed. this is major- power), whose cost would meet our plan of doing a wouldn't be at full power... machine in another fi ve So suppose there really league Good probably fall fast enough design-build-test generation but basically just showing years. is a full-scale prototype of to stay competitive. But it every year, that will put us at that all the physics works,” Lockheed Martin is not a a 100-megawatt nuclear News.” would rapidly replace the about fi ve years, and we've he added – but he did fringe player hyping some fusion reactor, ready to go in just 10 years. Nuclear already shown we can do predict a fully operational technological fantasy in into volume production, fusion is clean energy – no SEE DYER, E2

LOCAL VIEW NATIONAL VIEW

MICHAEL R. BLOOMBERG Gridlock doesn’t stop states from acting

ere's the big news from Tuesday's H election: Faced with gridlock in Wash- ington, more and more voters are turning to states and municipalities to do the work that the nation's capital seems increasingly unable to do. Let me give you one example: Voters in four states - all of them won by Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidential race - passed ballot measures increas- ing their state's minimum wage. In those states, many local Republicans favored the increases, even as Republicans in Wash- ington have refused to take up the issue. I would have preferred to see Congress Massachusetts Governor-elect Charlie Baker greets supporters the night of his election victory. DAILY NEWS PHOTO BY RICK HOLMES pass an expanded earned income tax credit, which is the most e! ective way of increasing real incomes for low-wage workers. But after it did nothing, voters GOVERNOR CHARLIE BAKER decided to take matters into their own hands. about what it takes to “In business did something pretty Waiting for Washington is Baker’s pledge: ‘I will love succeed. unusual for someone like a Samuel Beckett play It starts with keeping and in life, trust who has had a career at without any of the intrigue the job every single day’ your ear to the ground. is a big deal. It the center of state gov- or humor - just absurdity. “I like to get out there ernment: He went home And voters have seen here’s cam- and talk to people on makes it easier to Swampscott in 2004 enough. paigning the ground about what’s to do things and ran for selectman. I share their frustration, “Tand there’s happening,” Baker told Local government and as a strong believer governing,” Charlie me in a lengthy inter- that are hard. wasn’t new to him, he in the idea that cities and Baker told me a week view after an appearance It’s true in gov- said. He’d served on the states are the laboratories before the polls opened. in Framingham. “I really town’s charter review of democracy, I share their He knows the di! erence, do believe that if you ernment too." committee – a test of determination to act. This fall, I supported state- he said, and the rest of RICK HOLMES just talk to your own Care, he was known anyone’s tolerance for level e! orts on several us, having watched the team and if you don’t get for calling strangers detail and process – as ballot measures designed candidate for a year, outside and talk to other well down the corpo- well as the town man- to bypass Washington on are about to meet the way around the State people, you get a warped rate ladder in search of ager search committee three major issues that governor. House when he takes sense about how things information. and the high school are hurting the country: Unlike his two prede- o" ce in January. He are going.” As governor, a lot of building committee. gun violence, obesity and cessors, Deval Patrick spent most of the ‘90s Baker likes to get into those calls will go to “I really liked running political polarization. and Mitt Romney, Baker working closely with two the details. As CEO at local o" cials. Baker will already know his SEE BAKER, E2 governors, and we talked Harvard Pilgrim Health SEE BLOOMBERG, E2

MORE OPINIONS NATIONAL VIEW INSIDE Lena Dunham's bare, naked truth

ena Dunham, the air. ENVIRONMENTAL VIEW: creator of the Basically, Dunham Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on the sensational HBO wrote about her 7-year-old threat to the monarch but- L terfl y. 5E series "Girls" - and now self and her anatomical the object of overwrought curiosities at the time, LOCAL VIEW: Framingham child abuse accusations by which included wonder- State University president F. Javier Cevallos and Board boys on the right - seems ing whether all vaginas of Higher Education chair the perfect antidote to KATHLEEN PARKER are the same. To answer Richard Freeland on the state election fatigue. this question, not satisfi ed of the state's colleges and Poor Dunham. Every- with her mother's "I guess universities. 3E thing was rocking along she wrote. so," Dunham explored her OUR VIEW: Opportunities for just fi ne. At 28, she has It's a cinch that many of 1-year-old sister Grace's the state's leaders to respond to some of the questions on her own television series, her harshest critics haven't private parts. Lo and Actress Lena Dunham at a London book signing. Her last Tuesday's ballot. 4E a new book released in Sep- read the book themselves, behold, there she discov- memoir, Not That Kind Of Girl, has drawn criticism NATIONAL VIEW: George tember, money, fame and, but a few principles have ered pebbles, put "there" by from conservative commentators. AP PHOTO BY JOEL RYAN as these things go, critics. emerged that concern not little Grace for reasons that Will says Democrats may discussions took place But then, I am sentimental need to think twice before Her book, "Not That Kind the content but the treat- only 1-year-olds know. nominating Hillary Clinton. 2E of Girl," has become an ment of the author. We're Let me interrupt primarily in homes and about many things, such as HUMOR: Maybe Democrats overnight cri de coeur for not quite at the point of myself here to say that I doctor's o" ces. It isn't the days when people mar- can win a majority on the righteous types o! ended by burning books, though would prefer a world in prudery but decorum that ried before having children. moon, Phil Maddocks writes. what they read about what there's a hint of kerosene in which uterus and vagina compels me to say this. 8E SEE PARKER, E2 E2 THE DAILY NEWS Sunday, November 9, 2014

NATIONAL VIEW year. Taxing sugary drinks, Americans elected - and I BLOOMBERG in addition to reducing supported - centrist can- From Page E1 consumption, will lead the didates who promised to beverage industry to pro- work across party lines to Rethinking Hillary 2016 So how did we do? duce more products that are e! ect genuine change in In Washington state, low in sugar. their states. In Rhode Island, ow that two of in the smaller and more an organization I helped The soda industry has Democrat Gina Raimondo the last three liberal Democratic Senate found, Everytown for Gun successfully fought e! orts won the statehouse after Democratic caucus that will gather in Safety, worked with local to tax and regulate sugary leading one of the most N advocates to pass a ballot presidencies have been January. There is, how- drinks in the United States, comprehensive pension emphatically judged to ever, evidence that the left measure requiring a back- and although it spent heavily reform e! orts in the country. have been failures, the is too untethered from ground check for all gun to defeat the measure, voters In deep blue Massachusetts, world's oldest politi- reality to engage in e! ec- sales, a step 16 states have weren't fooled: 75 percent voters elected a Republican cal party - the primary GEORGE F. WILL tive politics. For example: already taken. In those endorsed the measure. If governor, Charlie Baker, architect of this nation's Billionaire Tom Steyer's states, the rates of gun it works, we should expect who pledged to work with administrative state - has environmental angst is tra" cking and gun suicides other cities and states to Democrats on education, some thinking to do. The "short-handed" her think- implausibly focused on are half of what they are follow. guns and economic develop- accumulating evidence ing, what weird thinking the supposed planetary in states that don't require Of course, you can't win ment. In Connecticut, voters that the Democratic Party can they be shorthand menace of the Keystone universal background them all. I backed e! orts re-elected Democratic gov- is an exhausted volcano for? XL pipeline. His Next- checks. The vast majority in Oregon to switch from ernor Dan Malloy, who has includes its fi xation with Yuval Levin, whose Gen Climate super PAC of Americans support this a system of closed party angered teachers unions; stale ideas, such as the sharp thinking was disbursed more than common-sense step, but primaries - where only party in Michigan, they returned supreme importance of honed at the University of $60 million to candi- the gun lobby has fought members may vote - to an Republican Rick Snyder, a 23rd increase in the Chicago's Committee on dates who shared - or it tooth-and-nail - both in open "top two" system. Part who has been a leader on minimum wage. Can this Social Thought, is editor pretended to in order Congress and in states. of the purpose of a top two immigration reform. party be so blinkered by of the National A! airs to get his money - his The gun lobby, however, primary, which voters in The story on Tuesday the modest success of its quarterly and author of obsession. The result? has an easier time scaring California and Washington wasn't just that Republicans third recent presidency, two books on science and The gavel of the Environ- members of Congress than have adopted, is to push won back the Senate or that Bill Clinton's, that it will public policy and, most ment and Public Works it does scaring voters. In candidates toward the President Barack Obama sleepwalk into the next recently, of "The Great Committee is coming Washington, we worked center by forcing them to lost. It was that Americans election behind Hillary Debate: Edmund Burke, into the hands of Okla- hard to get out the facts and compete for independent made clear they are hungry Clinton? Thomas Paine, and the homa's Jim Inhofe, the to bring voters to the polls. voters - not just party loyal- for bipartisan problem-solv- In 2016, she will have Birth of Right and Left." Senate's most implacable The measure passed with 60 ists. The partisan primary ing and that they're focusing won just two elections He is one of conserva- skeptic about large-scale percent of the vote, and the process, in which candidates on those places where it can in her 69 years, the last tism's most sophisticated and predictable climate state will be safer for it. race to the extreme left or actually happen. one 10 years previously. and measured explicators, change driven by human In Berkeley, California, I extreme right, is a big reason I hope the president can Ronald Reagan went 10 so his biting assessment behavior. backed local e! orts to pass Washington, D.C., is so dys- begin forging compromises years from his second of Clinton is especially Is Clinton the person a one cent per ounce tax on functional. Unfortunately, with Republicans. We can't election to his presiden- notable: to maintain her party's sugary beverages. Econo- the political parties weren't give up on Washington - tial victory at age 69, but "She is smart, tough hold on young voters? mists will tell you that if too happy with this measure there is no substitute for do Democrats want to and savvy and has a Democrats, in their you want less of something, and succeeded in bringing it national action on many wager their most precious capacity to learn from misplaced confi dence in tax it. Hence high taxes on down. issues - but we can't a! ord to possession, the presiden- failure and adjust. But their voter mobilization cigarettes. Sugary drinks The hunger for more wait for it, either. tial nomination, on the ... people are bored of magic, targeted what have are a leading contributor to cooperation in our poli- proposition that Clinton her and feel like she has been called "basement obesity, which contributes tics, as expressed through Michael R. Bloomberg is has political talents akin been talking at them grads." These are some of to millions of deaths — and these measures, also came the former mayor of New to Reagan's? forever. ... She is a dull, the one-third of millen- untold su! ering — every through in governor's races. York City. In October, Clinton grating, inauthentic, nials (ages 18-31) who, was campaigning, with over-eager, insipid elitist because of the economy's characteristic futility, with ideological blinders sluggishness in the sixth and painfully, humorously repeated in an article by for Martha Coakley, yet no particular vision year of recovery, are living neurotic, as well as refresh- Bradford Thomas at Truth- the losing candidate for and is likely to be reduced with their parents. Why PARKER From Page E1 ingly lacking in vanity. Revolt.org that prompted Massachusetts governor, to running on a dubious did Democrats think they These adjectives have led Dunham's attorneys to seek when she said: "Don't let promise of experience would be helped by luring But back to Dunham. not surprisingly to com- both a cease-and-desist and anybody tell you that it's and competence while anxious and disappointed The pebble anecdote, parisons to Woody Allen, an apology. corporations and busi- faking idealism and hope young people out of base- combined with a couple of who most closely resembles No go. nesses that create jobs." - a very common type of ments and into voting others, constituted child Winston Churchill next to Reasonable arguments Watch her on YouTube. presidential contender in booths? sexual abuse in the fevered Dunham. But the interior accrue to both sides. When saying this, she both parties, but one that The last time voters minds of Dunham's critics. dialogue that tortures both Dunham sees her stories glances down, not at a almost always loses." awarded a party a third The other small tales, lest Allen and Dunham links taken out of a context of text but at notes, and pro- Her husband prom- consecutive presidential your imagination gallop o! them to each other and to humor and innocence, ceeds with the hesitancy ised "a bridge to the 21st term was 1988, when into de Sade territory, were: their respective audiences. though she did write of someone gathering century." She promises a George Herbert Walker (1) bribing Grace with candy They treat us to the contents (tongue in cheek) that her thoughts. She is not bridge back to the 1990s. Bush's candidacy could to let Dunham kiss her on of their unconscious minds, "anything a sexual preda- reading a speechwriter's Or perhaps to 1988 be construed as promis- the lips for fi ve seconds; (2) which entertain us precisely tor might do to woo a small blunder. When she said and the "competence" ing something like a third exploring her own anatomy because we realize, oh dear, suburban girl I was trying." those 13 words she actu- candidacy of Michael Reagan term. A Clinton in bed at night after Grace we're not the only ones. On the other side, lazy ally was (thinking. Dukakis, which at least candidacy make sense if, fell asleep beside her. Don't all men wonder at reviewing isn't illegal. You may be wonder- did not radiate, as hers but only if, in 24 months One might fi nd this o! en- some point what it's like to To the larger point, ing, to use eight other will, a cloying aura of voters will be thinking: sive but, contextually, Grace be a sperm, as Allen por- artistic freedom, including Clinton words that will entitlement. Let's have a third Obama didn't stop sleeping with her trayed himself in his 1972 o! ensive or "bad" art, has to reverberate for a long The energy in her term. older sister until she (Lena) fi lm "Everything You Always be protected just as unpop- time: "What di! erence at party - in its nominat- was 17. Dunham's was Wanted to Know About Sex ular opinions must be. We this point does it make?" ing electorate - is well George Will's email apparently an a! ectionately - But Were Afraid to Ask"? don't need a First Amend- This di! erence: Although to her left, as will be the address is georgewill@ demonstrative family that (You have to see the movie.) ment to protect Hallmark she says her 13 words center of political gravity washpost.com. favored physical closeness, Likewise, Dunham might slogans but to protect us which is not the same as ask, don't all little girls from forces that would sexual. If we weren't talking wonder what other vaginas silence certain thoughts, about vaginas all the time, I didn’t like getting yelled make it work better, and look like? and, inevitably, certain we might know this. at, I was glad they told me you recognize you’ve got to But never mind. Nasty people. BAKER Dunham's brand of blunt From Page E1 what they thought. I was do it within the four walls sees what nasty knows. For now, Lena Dunham truth is, in fact, her brand glad they did that instead of what’s possible,” he said. Instead of critiquing Dun- is stuck with the story she and is the reason "Girls" has for selectman; it was fun,” of having a press confer- “In the end, if you spend ham's book as a work of art wrote. And critics, as always, been such a hit. She shows he said. “Like everything ence. In the long run, enough time with people, or literature - or even as a are stuck with themselves. girls (young women), or at else, you learn a whole that’s going to be a more and if you’re open to what display of narcissistic self- least a subset of girls, as they bunch of things about constructive way to get they have to say, if you’re parody - Kevin Williamson, Washington Post columnist really are - imperfect and your town and yourself. I something accomplished.” polite and respectful in the writing in National Review, Kathleen Parker's email striving. In Dunham's case, learned a lot about what “You need to be able way you make your case – focused on the anecdotes address is kathleenparker@ they're also self-absorbed, state government looks to trust that the other the same way my parents that, one surmises, inter- washpost.com. hurting, seeking, wanting like from the other end.” people who are part of that were with each other – you ested him most. They were Baker knows from conversation are going to can move the needle on experience that there’s play straight with it both stu! .” really happens, what would more emissions to come only so much a governor in public and in private,” Sometimes campaigns that do to the world? even if fossil fuels are suc- can do on his own. Leg- DYER he said. “In business and are revealing in the issues From Page E1 For a start, it would kill cessfully phased out in a islators have their own in life, trust is a big deal. It that don’t come up for o! the coal industry entirely. matter of decades. If fusion priorities and their own makes it easier to do things discussion. Beacon Hill fossil fuels, mainly coal and Gas would be the next to power became available soon mandates. Legislative lead- that are hard. It’s true in Democrats said lots of gas, that are used to generate go, but the demand for oil enough, however, we would ers are used to ignoring government too. nice things about their “base load” power – power (and therefore its price) never exceed 2 degrees C governors – whatever their Early in his fi rst term, candidate, Martha Coak- that is always available even would also go into a long- higher average global tem- party – if their agendas Patrick got in trouble with ley, during the campaign. if the sun is down and the term decline. The existing perature and trigger a global don’t align. What works, I some state reps for not You didn’t hear stories wind drops – especially nuclear power plants, which catastrophe. suggested, is when a gov- informing them before he about problems they had because the compact reactors depend upon fi ssion for their So you can fret all you ernor fi gures out what the went into their districts had dealing with Baker. would easily plug into the energy, would be replaced want about terrorism and House speaker and Senate to make announcements. Romney was a stranger existing gas turbine power with fusion plants on both the other minor complaints president want to accom- “There’s politics and there’s to Beacon Hill, and never infrastructure. cost and safety grounds. The of our times, but this is plish, and partners with governing,” Baker said. bothered learning how to Lockheed Martin’s T4 geopolitical impacts would major-league Good News. them to make sure the end “That would never happen fi t in. Patrick made some project reduces the size of the also be very large, as major And if you’re not happy with product refl ects his vision in a Baker administration.” early mistakes – includ- reactor tenfold for the same countries that live on oil those predictions about “hot” as well as theirs. Gov. Bill “Weld said to me one ing a kerfu# e over new output, so nuclear fusion exports see their cash fl ow fusion power, here’s some- Weld did that with educa- time - and I thought this drapes for his o" ce – but could also replace oil directly dry up. thing else to cheer you up. tion reform; Romney did it was great advice - ‘if some- he learned from them. in a great many uses, like Russia, Venezuela, COLD fusion power, with health care reform. body’s going to vote against Patrick also put Baker powering large ships. Its Nigeria, and other countries which depends on low- Baker agreed, and said me, I want it to be because on his transition team, abundant, cheap electricity whose precarious prosperity energy nuclear reactions what matters are relation- they don’t like something one sign of the bipartisan from a compact source could and stability depend on large (LENR), was dismissed with ships and trust. I asked I’m trying to accomplish. respect he had earned. also eventually drive oil out oil exports might face revo- much ridicule when it was what he had learned from I don’t want them to vote Now it’s Baker’s time to of most other transportation lution or civil war when their fi rst mooted in 1989. Now clashes with legislative against me because they govern, and he’s ready to uses, including automobiles income collapsed. So might it’s back on the table, and leaders in the ‘90s, and don’t like me.’” get started. I asked him and aircraft. Lockheed Mexico, Indonesia, Iran and highly reputable organi- he doesn’t remember “the Baker learned his bipar- whether he, like his friend Martin talks about meet- perhaps some Arab coun- zations like the National stu! that didn’t work.” He tisanship at a young age, Weld, might get bored ing global base load energy tries. On the other hand, Aeronautics and Space does remember meeting listening to debates at the with the job. demand with fusion power countries that currently Administration (NASA) are regularly with the chairs dinner table between his “I was never bored by 2050. spend a lot of their income taking it seriously. of the committees with conservative father, who once, the entire time I Lockheed Martin is not on energy imports would As Dennis Bushnell, chief oversight over the depart- served in the Nixon and worked in state govern- alone in the fi eld. EMC2 suddenly fi nd themselves scientist at NASA’s Langley ments he led - Health Reagan administrations, ment,” he said, “and I Fusion Development Corp much richer. (The United Research Center, said in an and Human Services and his liberal Democrat would never be bored as is working on a similar States leads the pack in this interview last year, “Several and Administration and mother. And while he was governor. concept in New Mexico, regard.) labs have blown up studying Finance – and reeled o! a a bit of a fi rebrand in his “I will love the job every and other signifi cant players But above all, the threat LENR and windows have list of Democrats he had early years at the Pioneer single day.” in the fi eld include Helion of runaway global warming melted....When the condi- good relations with. Institute - a right-leaning Energy in Washington state, would go away. tions are ‘right’, prodigious “I can remember plenty think tank where his job, Rick Holmes writes for the Canadian-based General It’s already too late to amounts of energy can be of times that somebody he said “was to push public Daily News and MassPo- Fusion, and Tri-Alpha avoid some very large produced and released.” The who was in the Legislature conversation” – he is, by liticalNews.com. He can Energy in California. After impacts, because there is a Age of Wonders is not past. called me up and yelled nature, a conciliator. be reached at rholmes@ half a century of desultory great deal of carbon dioxide Gwynne Dyer is an inde- at me about one thing or “If you’re working in wickedlocal.com. tinkering with fusion power, in the air that has not yet pendent journalist, based in another. And frankly, while government, your job is to this is an idea whose time produced its full warming London, whose articles are has come. Assuming that it e! ect, and there are a lot published in 45 countries. Sunday, November 9, 2014 THE DAILY NEWS E3

ARIAIL’S VIEW STATE VIEW Memo from the campuses What it takes to Massachusetts a leader in public higher education By Richard M. Freeland and Cooperative Edu- and F. Javier Cevallos cation) Program. The Guest Columnists initiative provides fund- ing specifi cally to cover he world needs more the cost of a salary for a good news these student participating in an Tdays, which makes internship or cooperative it a pleasure for us to lead education experience at a o! with some glad tidings local non-profi t or govern- LOCAL VIEW on behalf of Massachusetts’ ment organization. community colleges, state All good - but we need universities and UMass to pick up the pace of campuses even as we progress. A “perfect storm” Best election news: It’s over sound the alarm about of factors - our economy’s the need to address a few need for more college grad- No more phone calls, many races around the money, with $640 million worrisome trends in higher uates, a projected 9 percent No more spam, nation. I had hoped that the and counting spent by non- education. decline in the number No more ads big money people, such as candidate, non-party groups. Last month the Mas- of high school graduates Not worth a damn. the aforementioned Koch And it is the midterm elec- sachusetts Department of in the next six years, and ntil next time. brothers, might get tired of tion with the most “dark Higher Education released the cumulative impact of Aye, there’s the tossing millions into losing money,” at $140 million and its annual accounting of historic underfunding of Urub. This year’s campaigns, but this year counting from groups that our system’s performance public higher education GLENN ICKLER political saturation bomb- many of those spurious cam- do not disclose their donors. in comparison with - threatens the common- ing is over and we’re back paigns were successful. This This leaves those of us other states. “Degrees wealth’s ability to attract to watching ads featuring grandson was in it, appear- does not bode well for 2016. asked to chip in a $5 pit- of Urgency: Why Mas- and retain knowledge- always-ready couples in ing with a candidate he We were spared the tance for a candidate or a sachusetts Needs More based industries that drive matching bathtubs, but supported. worst of the mudslinging party feeling completely left College Graduates Now” economic growth. Our pool I’m afraid we have another The last three days before here in Massachusetts, out of the political process. comes four years after the of high-skilled graduates political barrage coming the election I never stirred where Charlie Baker and And the cost of conducting a Board of Higher Educa- is our single greatest asset when the 2016 campaign from wherever I was seated Martha Coakley carried on 21st-century campaign cer- tion (BHE) embraced the in the global marketplace. begins. to answer the telephone. I mostly positive campaigns tainly puts severe limits on Vision Project agenda, Yet analyses contained Ah, well, this week I can just let the robo-calls pile up and left the nastiness to a who can even contemplate a new way of thinking in “Degrees of Urgency” answer the phone again. on my voice mail and then few outside PACs. And up running for public o" ce. about “state schools.” The show that by 2025, Mas- And my e-mail won’t be erased them all in one fell in New Hampshire, the Back in the 1960s, I was Vision Project centers on sachusetts’ public higher loaded with messages beg- swoop. Sort of like muck- winner in the U.S. Senate twice elected mayor of a the goal of becoming a education system will fall ging me to “chip in $5.” ing out the barn when I was race was Jeanne Shaheen, small Minnesota city and I national leader in public short of meeting the state’s If I had chipped in $5 growing up on the farm. whose ads talked about her doubt that my total cam- higher education, while need for new associate’s every time I was asked, I confess that I did derive achievements and plans, paign expenses even reached also stressing the system’s and bachelor’s degrees by my chips would have been one lasting benefi t from while those of her opponent, double digits. Now the need to strive for greater a minimum of 55,000 to stacked almost as high as the the plethora of TV attack Scott Brown, belabored the mind boggles at the thought e" ciencies and hold itself 65,000. Without a course Koch brothers’ pile. Every ads. They gave me so much “99 percent with Obama” of running for any o" ce accountable for results. correction, those miss- day for weeks I got messages practice pressing the mute theme and provided little more competitive than dog Now, four years into ing degrees will translate with subjects such as “Catas- button that I now can fi nd information about how the catcher. our work to achieve both into thousands of lost trophe,” “No time to spare,” it without looking at the carpetbagger planned to Billions of dollars that academic excellence and opportunities, as employ- “Running out of time,” remote. This saves me save his new home state. could have been better spent a! ordability, we can report ers struggle to fi nd talent “Boehner GONE,” “Qua- precious seconds muting The money poured into for many things are in the real signs of progress and students discover that druple match” and “Please, automobile commercials in smothering American voters ad providers’ banks, and toward reaching our they lack the credentials to Glenn.” Candidates from as which everybody seems to be with campaign claptrap for now the tumult and the national leadership goals. compete for high-skilled, far away as Iowa and Colo- screaming like football fans has gone beyond all reason. shouting have died. Enjoy - State Funding. The good-paying jobs. rado had their electronic trying to drown out the visit- This was the most expensive the peace and quiet while joint e! orts of the Patrick Meanwhile, other hands out for $5 contribu- ing quarterback’s signals. midterm election in history, you can. This is, after all, the administration and the leading technology tions from little old me. What bothers me most with expenditures estimated month of Thanksgiving. Massachusetts Legislature states - New York, Penn- I even received a TV ad about the vicious, menda- at $4 billion and counting. have resulted in signifi cant sylvania, Ohio, Illinois, from Oregon, but I didn’t cious TV ads is that they It is also the midterm elec- Glenn Ickler of Hopedale is a new dollars for public Minnesota, and in some delete that one because my seem to have worked in tion with the most outside retired newspaper editor. higher education in the last industry sectors, Texas and two years. California - outperform LETTERS TO THE EDITOR - College Completion. Massachusetts when it Will Baker change GOP disaster in other countries, my country. symbol of a blind person. He One-third of our public comes to producing high- our federal government D.A. COOPER moved it left and right and campuses, including skilled graduates coveted climate view? would readily dole out as Hudson I’m sure they were marching Framingham State Uni- by business and industry. versity, are now meeting or In every major business Re: “Editorial: Moving many funds as needed to get to someone calling cadences... Memories of Veterans exceeding Vision Project and industry sector that from words to deeds on that country back on its feet. left...left...left...left..right...left. goals for improvement drives economic growth, climate change” (Nov. 5) Yet, they chose to make cuts Day parades As each of us looked down in graduation rates. If we Massachusetts will need to Your editorial points at home - where and when it at the cane, we knew how Do you remember when a can scale those results expand its talent pipeline out the merits of a federal really counts - in the midst of hard that must be to march parade was really something? across the system, we’ll be or risk losing its competi- revenue-neutral carbon tax a crisis. and be blind. But then your I remember in Milford we a national leader in college tive edge. to combat human-caused Then, the same day I read eyes naturally move up to see would go downtown hours completion rates within 10 “Degrees of Urgency” climate change. However, that the White House rejects the man. He had on black early, staking out a good spot years. outlines a “Big Three Com- only Congress can make such calls for a travel ban. What is sunglasses and his face was to see everything. Everyone - Meeting Employer pletion Plan” to 1) ramp up a market-based plan a real- President Obama thinking? beyond recognition. He had knew that at parade time, the Needs for a Skilled Work- graduation/student success ity - and with both houses of This is an e! ective, common no ears, the signs of burns. crowd would be four rows force. Framingham State rates 2) work more aggres- Congress now controlled by sense move to keep this That’s what tore at everyone deep in areas downtown. is designing new programs sively to close achievement climate-change deniers, the deadly outbreak out of our - the su! ering he lived with Fancy folding chairs didn’t that align with local work- gaps and 3) attract and prospects for such a solution country. Republicans - and and still marched on proudly. really exist much then so the force needs, including a retain more students who seem grim. even some Democrats - have As his group passed quietly, curb was it. Many parents sat pre-engineering bachelor’s are currently not served by Of course, voices of reason endorsed the travel ban. Even the crowd did a wave – back there too, in case they had to degree program and pro- the public higher educa- in the Republican Party - and back 100, 200, 300 years ago, then, when there was no grab junior if, in the excite- fessional science master’s tion system. Such a plan there still are a few - could civilization knew that isola- wave. It was a spontaneous ment, the child wants to pet program in biotechnology. isn’t executed on the cheap, induce some of those rep- tion was the most e! ective roar. Cheers, clapping, adults the horsey. Enrollment in the STEM though – and despite two resentatives and senators to way to isolate diseases. standing. I remember how we (Science, Technology, Engi- good years of state invest- think twice about automati- I then read Oct. 20 that People need to face this could hear it coming in the neering and Mathematics) ment, Massachusetts still cally deferring to the whims Obama said, “a travel ban cost more often. Thanks to distance. The bands would subjects has increased sub- ranks 26th among the of the fossil-fuel industry. would be counterproduc- tough people like that, we can assemble at some good spot. stantially in recent years. states in funding per full- Our newly elected Republi- tive, driving travelers be free to live. at the starting moment,.the - Closing Achievement time student and 46th in can governor, Charlie Baker underground and hinder- The veterans followed, police block the streets from Gaps. At our community state spending on need- - once a climate-change ing screening of potential horses with riders, the Boy all tra" c, the crowd thick- colleges, enrollment in based fi nancial aid. “skeptic” - now recognizes Ebola carriers.” This begs Scouts and the Girl Scouts, ens, the guys come racing by non-credit remedial course A Higher Education the risks of escalating carbon the question, how? By what The DAR (Daughters of the with shopping carts full of is decreasing among Finance Commission has emissions and the promise of other means of underground American Revolution) and balloons, blown up things, Latino/a students, a sign recommended $475 mil- clean energy. Let’s hope that transportation could possibly other good-cause clubs.- fl ags. Many times FREE little that collaborative work lion in investment in our our new governor uses his be utilized? Grow wings? .the Eagles, Moose lodges, U.S. fl ags were handed out with high schools to better public higher education platform as a bully pulpit to Don a super hero cape and Masons, Hibernians.The Ital- by who? The VFW, Ameri- prepare students for col- system over the next fi ve urge his party to embrace this soar through the sky? Of ians, Portuguese and other can Legion, Amvets and so lege is working. years, and an additional reasonable solution to the course not. That’s as ludicrous ethnic fl oats would pass. The many more patriotic groups, - Taxpayer Savings. $210 million in fi nancial problem of carbon pollution. as opposing a travel ban. clowns would get all the kids probably. Finally you see the Since 2011, Massachusetts’ aid for our neediest stu- D.R. TUCKER Further, screening merely beginning of it: the school laughing and fi dgeting, candy Brockton consists of taking the tem- would be tossed from cars. community colleges, state dents. Such support would band plays the Star Spangled universities and UMass help more students earn peratures of air travelers. The Banner, and then a popular The oilman, a local farmer, Poor choices with incubation period for Ebola your hometown furniture campuses have saved $212 certifi cates and degrees, hit of the day.The baton twirl- million through a com- while also lifting Mas- Ebola is 21 days. A traveler could be ers march by. The fi retrucks store, all took part. Then the carrying it and not know it. end came, one last band.from bination of collaborative sachusetts into the ranks I have been left scratch- would pass and we waved at and individual campus of the top 10 systems of ing my head and pounding All the thermometers in the our heroes. When they blew another local town. world are ine! ective for curb- Back then, everyone cost-saving e! orts. At public higher education my brow regarding the inept the horns and blasted the Framingham State, e! orts in the U.S. – an impera- handling of Ebola in this ing the spread of this deadly siren, the crowd would moan cheered, clapped and monster. behaved properly. We were to “go green” are saving tive, we believe, given the country. I fi rst read in the - babies cried..Up so close.. the university hundreds state’s reliance on a highly Daily News, Oct. 16, that I am left with one of two you could see your refl ection celebrating our great town, conclusions: Obama doesn’t our country. All of us were of thousands of dollars educated workforce to lawyers say “imposing restric- in the shining trucks and cars. each year and have earned grow our knowledge-based tions could be a challenge want to impose such restric- Then, I will never forget, part of it. We would all look tions on his African people/ in the local paper to see if we the campus a spot in the economy. to ensure that quarantines, a sudden hush moved Princeton Review’s Guide Memo to Massachu- curbs on movement and kin et al, or he’s trying to through the crowd. It is the were in any of the pictures. decrease the United States’ Before I die, I hope I can to Green Colleges. setts: your public higher other steps do not intrude two men holding the long, - Civic Learning. In education system is on the too heavily on civil liberties.” surplus population - OR cloth banner across the ride in a car, cane in hand BOTH. In any case, he scares with my uniform on, waving 2012, the Massachusetts case. Now more than ever, WHAT? Intrude on civil whole street: D.A.V. Disabled Board of Higher Education the public colleges and uni- liberties? Are they serious? me and I’ll never understand American Veterans. The at my grandkids on the curb why the American people and the other future soldiers. became the fi rst statewide versities who educate the We’re not talking about a trip crowd was humbled and governing board in the majority of undergradu- to Disney World - we’re talk- are so benumbed as to elect shocked, because walking “I love a parade,” the old song and re-elect him. He doesn’t said. America has been put nation to designate civic ates need and deserve your ing about the potential for a alone behind the banner learning as an “expected support. deadly pandemic! abide by the US Constitution, was one man. He was in down by its own ignorant citi- thus he has broken the law zens, too young to remember outcome” for undergradu- Then I read Oct. 17 that his military uniform and ate students. Framingham Richard M. Freeland is “federal funding cuts have on multiple occasions. He is marched very erect, like all a World War, where we might in dire need of impeachment lose to killers and we put in State has embraced this Massachusetts Commis- made it more di" cult for real soldiers do. He had a goal and recently launched sioner of Higher Education the medical community to before he does any further long white cane outstretched an e! ort to win. It has not damage to our beautiful always been like this. the CHOICE (Com- and F. Javier Cevallos is prepare for potential cases of in front of him. It had a munity/Hometown president of Framingham Ebola.” If there was a natural country and its people. I love bright red tip on it, a silent DENNIS KING Clinton Organizations Internships State University. E4 THE DAILY NEWS Sunday, November 9, 2014

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OUR VIEW Responding to the ballot questions

n addition to elect- general fund. Baker and ing a full slate of state legislative leaders should Io" cials, Massachu- address those concerns by setts voters expressed restoring the environmen- themselves on a handful tal fund and by bringing of issues this week. In curbside recycling to more some cases, their decisions neighborhoods and require a response from communities. those who were elected. On Question 3, voters This is especially true upheld the legislation legal- LOCAL VIEW for Question 1, in which izing casino gambling in voters toppled a pillar the commonwealth. State of the state’s long-term o" cials should take the transportation fi nancing vote as encouragement to plan. Indexing the gas tax complete the job of award- Marine’s ordeal fi nally ends to infl ation makes sense ing licenses for three resort on practical grounds, in casinos and one slots parlor uring seven hor- account. in your prison. Treat him order to assure revenues Question 4, requiring rendous months in Nevertheless, assum- with the same respect that keep up with the rising employers to provide sick a Mexican prison, ing that you are in that we treat your people who costs of maintaining roads leave, may face a court D United States Reserve country willingly, guns are enter our country.” Even and bridges. But the idea challenge. But in the mean- Marine Sgt. Andrew Tah- illegal in Mexico except Hillary Clinton was moved of automatic increases in time, state o" cials should mooreasi,26, was punched, for use by the military. to tweet “I’d be burning up the gas tax rate struck a implement the system slapped, and cursed. He Technically, he had broken the telephone wires and nerve with voters, who saw approved by the voters. As was chained naked for a FRANK MAZZAGLIA Mexican law, but this was sending envoys.” the provision as a cynical they establish rules and time and deprived of water hardly the case of the ‘ugly Others were less attempt to insulate legisla- procedures for businesses, and food. He was shackled American” using his status restrained in their senti- tors from having to vote they should be sensitive to to his prison bed in four Andrew I used to know has to gain special privilege. ments. Here are a few on higher taxes. Elected the concerns about exces- point restraints and then gone. He became a di! erent It was a simple mistake. samples. “The sad key here leaders should accept that sive paperwork heard actually attempted suicide. guy. He was acting distant. I Nevertheless, the Mexican seems to be if Andrew position and refrain from during the campaign and The reserve Marine was took him to La Jolla where authorities fi led a wide would denounce the such methods in the future. keep the burden of compli- fi nally released last week he got diagnosed and he range of federal weapons military and change his The impact of the ballot ance as light as possible for after a court hired Mexican started seeing people on a charges and threw Andrew religion, he too would be vote won’t be immedi- employers. psychiatrist determined regular basis.” in prison to await trial. an invited guest at the ate. At the current rate One non-binding ques- that he was su! ering from Shortly after that, on During his seven month Rose Garden.” Another of infl ation, the 24-cent tion on Tuesday’s ballot post traumatic stress stem- March 31 to be exact, ordeal prison authorities, said, “From 1979 to 1981, gas tax would have risen also deserves the attention ming from his Afghanistan Andrew went to a bar of course, denied all allega- for 444 days, Iran held by perhaps a half-cent in of elected leaders. Voters combat tour of duty, a popular with Marines at tions of abuse. Justice, 66 American diplomats January. With the price of in 14 legislative districts psychiatric condition that Camp Pendleton. After Mexican style, apparently and sta! hostages. The a gallon of regular running approved questions call- could best be treated in the leaving the, he made a takes a long time. Yet, one day Ronald Reagan was 81 cents lower than a year ing for the legalization of United States. No deter- turn to what he thought has to wonder why it took elected president their ago, a half-cent either way marijuana. This unsurpris- mination was made on headed to San Diego. It seven months to con- captivity ended. Jimmy wouldn’t be noticed. And ing result – Massachusetts the charges against him. ended up, however, being clude that their American Carter should be eternally while losing the indexing voters have approved Tahmooreasi maintained an on-ramp that funneled Marine veteran needed grateful he’s no longer con- provision was estimated marijuana reform ques- his innocence throughout his truck south and into psychiatric help. sidered the worst president to be worth $1 billion over tions by solid margins the trial and never admitted Mexico. The only way back During the past seven in American history.” 10 years, the revenue it whenever they’ve been to any wrongdoing. would have been to turn months, more than Tweets aside, enough generated wouldn’t be a given the chance – is a Tahmooreasi’s troubles the truck around and drive 100,000 Americans peti- evidence has emerged to major factor in the revenue preview of coming attrac- began after an old Marine into oncoming tra" c. tioned the White House have merited quiet diplo- picture until 5 to 10 years tions. Advocates intend to buddy, Sam Vranicar, Stopped by Mexi- seeking President Barack matic resolution instead of out. put full legalization on the who served with him in can border guards, he Obama’s intercession to no a protracted international But the ballot vote does ballot in 2016. Afghanistan back in 2010, explained, “I got here avail. Recently, Secretary of court case which speaks put transportation fi nanc- In the past, governors convinced him to move accidentally. Please let State John Kerry revealed poorly of Mexican-U.S. ing back on Beacon Hill’s and legislators have from his home in Florida to me turn around.” He told that he had spoken to relations. Fortunately, agenda. Gov.-elect Charlie cowered from tackling San Diego, where he could the guards that he had Mexican authorities about Andrew was released just Baker, who supported the drug reform questions. get treated for his post legally registered guns the case. before this nation prepares repeal e! ort, pledged to With marijuana decrimi- traumatic stress. Upon his and ammunition in the Montel Williams, a to celebrate Veterans Day. beef up appropriations for nalization in 2008 and arrival, though, Vranicar truck. A tape from a 911 former Marine himself, That’s the day we celebrate transportation infrastruc- the legalization of medi- noted, “As soon as he got call Andrew made seeking tweeted this to Mexican our heroes, heroes like ture on a pay-as-you-go cal marijuana in 2012, here, I realized that the assistance confi rms that authorities , “A Marine is Andrew Tahmooressi. basis, rather than issue elected leaders chose to bonds. With the state let the advocates write the facing a revenue shortfall, laws and the voters decide LOCAL VIEW that promise may be hard – then complained after to keep. the fact about the way the Longer term, Baker propositions were worded. should put his own stamp This time, they should Marijuana: A public health menace? on the transportation engage the issues well in hat a ruckus the system far longer than foresaw in the decrimi- master plan. The Leg- advance. Recreational William Ben- many other mind-altering nalization of pot use. islature kept its “reform cannabis is already legal Wnett raised with substances and also impairs They instead projected before revenue” promise in Colorado and Wash- his Wall Street Journal function for longer periods. less black market activ- before enacting the gas tax ington state. Tuesday, article “Legal Pot Is a Public Bennett noted Colo- ity, reduced numbers of increase, but Baker may voters in Alaska, Oregon Health Menace.” rado is the fi rst state to arrests and incarcerations, fi nd more opportunities and Washington, D.C., The former U.S. Secre- legalize recreational use and increased revenues for reform. The savings followed suit. Baker and tary of Education blamed a JOHN P. LAMBERT of marijuana. He credits to governments through we’d hoped to see come legislative leaders should “campaign of misinforma- legalization for increased taxes on cannabis products. through the consolidation appoint a panel to study tion” for media and popular pot exposure and overdos- Libertarians wrote of the of various agencies into how legalization has played support in the legaliza- the drug’s legalization. That ing in the state. Further, individual’s right to ingest MassDOT have fallen far out in these other states, tion of marijuana use. Pot restriction would be similar Bennett writes, reports whatever he chose - free- short of projections. Baker determine which models proponents in their letters to those imposed on minors are now coming out of the dom from government and the Legislature should would be most appropriate to the Journal strenuously for alcohol and tobacco state relating “a parade of restrictions look hard for more savings for Massachusetts, and put objected to this assertion. use. Bennett snorted at the horribles from more (pot) Jascha Kessler of Santa before signing o! on new forward legislation. Other- In his usual bellicose adoption of such a ban for intoxicated driving to emer- Monica, Calif., wrote of taxes. wise, advocates – and the manner, Bennett exercised pot usage. He observed gency hospital admissions.” Shakepeare’s Cassio in the Question 2 spotlighted growing for-profi t mari- his penchant for stirring such restrictions on youth Employers everywhere tragedy Othello. Having lost the state’s parallel recy- juana industry – will write pots of controversy. And had proven largely inef- dismiss workers who fail his military command for cling systems: a deposit a law that suits their pur- stir the pot he did in this fective for the two cited drug tests and are impaired drunken brawling, Cassio system for some kinds of poses, one that might not Journal venture. substances and success by drug use, including that laments, “Oh, that men containers, and a voluntary serve the public interest. Bennett’s chief concern regarding pot would in his for pot use. Employers do should put an enemy in system for others. Voters Under the state constitu- in the column was to keep mind be a fi rst. so as a safety issue in the their mouths to steal away Tuesday decisively rejected tion, elected leaders have the weed and its THC laden Bennett charged that the work environment. That their brains!” an e! ort to expand the a role in the ballot initia- derivatives (cookies, can- campaign of pot misin- issue arises frequently in The bard might have deposit system. Now let’s tive process. Only if the dies, tablets) from juveniles. formation minimized the transportation indus- added today, “Or that men talk about expanding the state Legislature refuses Legalization proponents harmful e! ects for adult try, in foundry operations, should inhale into their voluntary system. to act on a law submitted acceded to fi ndings THC recreational users. Addic- in heavy machinery use, lungs foul vapors to addle Bottle Bill advocates by initiative petition are was harmful to the devel- tion is a possibility, however in precision manufactur- their brains.’ said not enough people proponents allowed to take oping brains of teens and infrequent. Nonetheless, ing and more. With other Whatever. Polls indicate have curbside recycling, it directly to the voters. agreed youngsters should the addiction is as debilitat- employers, simple issues the public is determined to and complained that Elected o" cials should not have recreational access ing as any addiction. arise over lack of motivation decriminalize recreational unclaimed deposits that respond to these issues to the drug. The harm done The American Psycho- and reduced intellectual pot usage. previously funded e! orts before they land on the them would have lifetime logical Association found capacity in the worker. to boost recycling and ballot, and should respect cognitive implications. few recreational pot users Many WSJ letter writ- John P. Lambert lives in clean up public lands the will of the voters in Advocates proposed an limit themselves to once a ers minimized the “public Marlborough. had been diverted to the implementing them. age-related restriction in week use. THC remains in health menace” Bennett Sunday, November 9, 2014 THE DAILY NEWS E5

NATIONAL VIEW NATIONAL VIEW Midterms’ big winner: Scrooge McDuck What Democrats must do ook at it this way: At hen a party low turnout helped doom diminishing the power of least the 2014 midterm loses as cata- Democrats in blue states Wall Street, the Demo- elections are over. Wstrophically particularly. Voters ages crats have had precious L as the Democrats lost 18 to 29 constituted just little to say about how Maybe the most clueless pronouncement ever made Tuesday, something very 13 percent of the elec- to re-create the kind of by a U.S. Supreme Court big has gone very wrong. torate, down from 19 widely shared prosperity justice was Anthony Ken- Democrats can't blame percent in 2012. Latinos that emerged from the the blowout simply on favored Democrats by 62 New Deal. The regulated nedy's comment in the 2010 GENE LYONS HAROLD MEYERSON Citizens United case arguing the six-year itch, or low percent to 36 percent, and more equitable capi- that unlimited "independent midterm turnout, or but they constituted just talism of the mid-20th Republican negativity, they were put before 8 percent of voters, the century has morphed into (campaign) expenditures, Historically speaking, voters - from deepest- including those made by almost every president's or Barack Obama's too- same level as in 2010, a far harsher system, just cool-for-rule presidency. blue San Francisco and despite their growing as Americans told the exit corporations, do not give rise party loses power in sixth- Oakland to solid-red to corruption or the appear- year midterm elections What fundamentally ails share of the population. pollsters, and the Demo- the Democrats, rather, Nebraska, South Dakota, Tuesday's electorate tilted crats, whose calling card ance of corruption." - perhaps as it begins to Arkansas and Alaska. Not even secret donations dawn upon starry-eyed is the same ailment that white and old - which is to generations of voters a# icts incumbent parties Yet Democrats were to say, Republican. was their ability to foster by free-range tycoons hiding supporters that the coun- singularly unable to behind fake "charitable" try's in as big a mess as ever. throughout the advanced Yet the same factors good economies, are at a economies, and par- take advantage of such that lowered the turn- loss for how to proceed. groups with names like Citi- Thus what the Washington unarguably populist zens for Cute Kitten Videos. Post calls "Obama's journey ties of the center-left in out of the Democratic Like their counterparts particular: their inability sentiments. Never mind base also cost the party in the center-left par- Because when Scrooge from triumphant, validated their failure to win in red McDuck dumps a truckload Democratic hero to a politi- to deliver broadly shared votes among whites: the ties of Europe, they had prosperity as they used states or hold the Senate. failure of government to crafted national policies of bullion into a political cal millstone weighing on They failed to turn out campaign, it's not because his party's chances." to do. remedy, or even address, that bolstered the power The Ebola and Islamic their voters, or persuade the downward mobility of and income of the major- he wants anything in return. It happened to Ronald the hitherto persuadable, It's all about the public good. Reagan in 1986 and to State phobias certainly most Americans. Demo- ity of their citizens. But didn't help, but the over- in such blue bastions as crats who touted the globalization, technology, It's also fi ne, the justices George W. Bush in 2006, Maryland, Massachusetts ruled, because money is a and it would probably have whelming anxiety that nation's economic growth fi nancialization and the the Democrats failed to and Illinois, where they did so at their own peril: erosion of workers' power form of speech. Scrooge happened to Bill Clinton in lost governors' races. needn't even disclose spend- 1998 - booming economy address was the economy. When 95 percent of the have undermined those In national exit polls, 45 Even in the people's income growth since the policies and fractured ing $50 million on TV ads notwithstanding - if the fools republic of Vermont, the claiming that a candidate hadn't impeached him. percent of respondents recession ended goes to their electorates. cited the economy as incumbent Democratic the wealthiest 1 percent, Democrats can't rely seeking to prevent McDuck It's particularly likely governor won so nar- Industries from dumping when a large number of their chief concern - way as economist Emmanuel simply on their demo- ahead of health care, rowly that the race will be Saez has documented, graphic advantages and liquid cyanide into back- Senate seats are being tossed to the legislature yard swimming pools has a contested in states that the which ranked second at voters view reports of a their edge on cultural 25 percent, not to men- (as Vermont law requires recovery as they would issues to win the White hidden history of torturing president lost two years when no gubernatorial kittens. earlier - defi nitely helping tion foreign policy, which news from a distant land. House in 2016, much clocked in at 13 percent. candidate breaks 50 per- Even though it was the less retake Congress. That would be a violation McDuck Industries identify cent). If current margins of Scrooge's First Amend- which races to target. Dig a little deeper into Republicans who blocked They need to go where the public's economic hold, there will be just 18 Democrats' e! orts to they haven't gone before ment right to free speech: Consider Arkansas, Democratic governors in exactly like a law forbid- where Sen. Mark Pryor fears, though, and you raise the federal mini- - increasing workers' might conclude that January, and just eight mum wage or authorize power and incomes ding you, dear reader, from drew no GOP opponent in the 31 states that don't posting a comment calling in 2008, but this year the Democrats should job-generating infra- within corporations, say have had a good election border the Atlantic or structure projects or - if they are to create an me a mangy dog. How could found himself unseated by Pacifi c. anybody think otherwise? McDuck-fi nanced Rep. Tom night. Sixty-three per- diminish student debt, economic platform cred- cent of respondents told Tuesday's verdict it was Democrats - the ible enough to win back If only the Supremes had Cotton, whose entire cam- makes clear that the ruled that speech was a form paign consisted of repeating pollsters they believed party generally perceived the country. that the U.S. economic Democrats cannot win as controlling the govern- of money. That's one I could "Obama, Obama, Obama" by demographics alone. have endorsed. like a cockatoo. system generally favors ment - who paid the price Harold Meyerson is the wealthy, while just 32 Republicans failed to for that government's editor-at-large of The Metaphysical absurdities It was apt to work, improve their dismal per- aside, the clearest e! ect of Arkansas Democrat-Gazette percent said that it is fair failure to act. American Prospect. to most. And a wave of formance among Latino But with the exception Citizens United has been to columnist John Brummett and African American make people more con- writes, "because of an irra- ballot measures to raise of Sen. Elizabeth Warren, state or city minimum voters or among the D-Mass., who has been temptuous of politics. "This tional aversion to President young, but these groups' fall," writes New York Times Barack Obama and Obam- wages carried wherever plenty outspoken about columnist Tim Egan, "voters acare, the local application are more disgusted, more of which is saving hospi- bored and more cynical tals, insuring hundreds of NATIONAL VIEW about the midterm elec- thousands of poor people, tions than at any time in holding down premiums at least two decades ... just and saving the state vital 29 percent of the electorate money in its Medicaid The vanishing monarch butterfl y said they were 'enthusiastic' matching." about voting this year." Arkansas, however, ain't By Robert F. Kennedy Jr. use skyrocketed since more people to plant And those, I fear, are America, only a provincial 1 Guest Columnist the late 1990s when milkweed. Homeowners, mainly the crackpots. Where percent of it. What's more, Monsanto introduced schoolchildren, landown- I live (Arkansas) the easiest the "irrational aversion," sad early every "Roundup Ready" corn ers and others can all way to avoid toxic politi- to say, has ancient roots. autumn, I head and soybeans. Mid- spread milkweed seeds cal arguments during this Otherwise, two thoughts: to the hills to western farmers quickly along the monarchs' First, Obama is not as N election season is to pro- band and release hawks, adopted those genetically migratory route, creat- nounce anathema on the unpopular nationally as eagles and other powerful engineered herbicide- ing a "butterfl y highway." lot. Nobody argues with you front-running news media raptors as they ride the ridge each fall we rou- resistant seeds, which The White House has (except my sainted wife, who pretend. As Media Matters' mountains' updraft on tinely used to see several now account for an created an interagency tends be dreadfully earnest Eric Boehlert points out, their southern migration. hundred monarchs a day. estimated 72 percent of Pollinator Health Task about these things). despite misleading head- While there, I always Last autumn, for the fi rst corn and 94 percent of Force to develop plans to Particularly resented is lines about "plummeting" used to marvel at another time in 30 years, I saw soybeans. save bees, butterfl ies and the ceaseless barrage of TV approval rates, the presi- autumnal migrant, tiny none. I was witness to a Farmers can now other at-risk pollinators. commercials that has made dent's actual numbers have but no less magnifi cent, crisis. And from what I blanket their fi elds with Finally, we need to watching local news broad- consistently held in the low monarch butterfl ies, fl ap- have heard from friends the herbicide without rethink the industrializa- casts hazardous to mental to mid-40s - not good, but ping earnestly on their in the Midwest, you are harming their crops - but tion of our agriculture health. Ordinary citizens nothing close to the mid- delicate wings, dappling probably bearing witness very e" ciently killing system, which routinely simply don't know who, if 20s achieved by George W. the ridge top orange and too. How many mon- any milkweed in the way. yields unintended anybody, to believe. The easy Bush. black.. arch butterfl ies can you The result: Glyphosate consequences. Other option is to believe nobody, Secondly, along with Although they weigh remember seeing this use has risen tenfold and herbicide-resistant and to quietly yearn for the Obamacare, improving the less than a tenth-of-an- summer? devastated the monarchs' transgenic crops are in return of the shouting auto health and security of mil- ounce, the monarchs' The annual migration milkweed habitat. the pipeline that will dealers and discount furni- lions, he's greatly improved 2,500-mile annual of the monarchs, one of It's not too late to save further decimate milk- ture pitchmen. the economy, controlled transcontinental jour- the most inspiring natu- the monarchs. But we weed unless we adopt Alas, that reaction's budget defi cits, and added ney to Mexico is longer ral phenomena on the need to act quickly to appropriate safeguards exactly what McDuck 5.5 million jobs, reduc- than that of most rap- planet, may be coming to make room for the plant now. In managing our Industries wants. To fi x the ing unemployment to 5.9 tors. They fl y north from an end. The population they need to survive. food supply, the top pri- problem will apparently take percent. Mexico across the Mid- count in Mexico plunged The Natural Resources ority should be to protect a constitutional amendment In foreign policy, sure, west and up the eastern from a billion strong a Defense Council has consumers and the envi- stipulating what should have the Middle East remains an seaboard, to Canada decade ago to just 33.5 already fi led a petition ronment, not the profi ts been obvious to a power- awful mess. But when wasn't - and back again, all in million this year, and an with the Environmen- of giant agri-businesses. house intellect like Justice it? one summer. The yearly expert declared that the tal Protection Agency The eagles and fal- Kennedy: that money's defi - Maybe Paul Krugman trek requires several migration is "at serious to place some com- cons that soar south nitely not speech, it's power. laid it on a bit thick in Roll- generations. risk of disappearing." The mon-sense limits on every autumn once faced And that apportioning ing Stone, calling Barack Somehow, the butter- principal culprit of their glyphosate use, such as extinction from the and delimiting power is Obama "one of the most fl ies in the fi nal summer decline is a rapacious requiring farmers to set pesticide DDT. An earlier what the U.S. Constitution is consequential and, yes, generation decide to industrial agriculture up herbicide-free safety generation of conserva- all about. successful presidents in embark on this impos- system. zones around the edges of tionists, scientists and Another unfortunate American history." sible journey crossing Scientists say defores- their fi elds, and banning public o" cials saved aspect of the 2014 campaign Nevertheless, barring mountains, oceans and tation in Mexico, drought the use of glyphosate and them. This generation has been the temptation unforeseen disasters, the deserts to reach a place and climate change may other weed killers along can save the monarch to portray it as a national president's claims are they've never been, a be contributing to the highways and power- migration. We don't want referendum on President substantial. mountainous mecca west monarchs' peril. But a line rights of way, where to be the last to witness Obama. The news media's of Mexico City where main cause, they agree, milkweed could fl ourish the marvel of the mon- Cult of the Presidency Arkansas Times colum- their great grandparents is the soaring use of the harmlessly. Last week arch's journey. sustains the ongoing melo- nist Gene Lyons can be departed months earlier. powerful weed killer it sued to block another drama and a" rms its own reached at eugenelyons2@ There they survive the glyphosate, fi rst mar- chemical cocktail made Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a self-importance. yahoo.com. winter, roosting by the keted as Roundup by of glyphosate and 2,4-D, licensed master falconer, millions. biotech giant Monsanto. another herbicide. is president of Water- We have little grasp of Roundup is wiping out State and local highway keeper Alliance and a the kinetics that animate milkweed, the only plant departments and utilities senior attorney with this pilgrimage, but, that monarch larvae can can act now by stop- the Natural Resources like me, people every- eat. ping the wholesale use of Defense Council. He where used to thrill at Long one of the most glyphosate immediately wrote this for the Chicago the monarchs' arrival in e! ective weed killers on with no adverse impacts Tribune. their yards, parks and the market, glyphosate's on safety or maintenance. neighborhoods. On the Next, we need to get E8 THE DAILY NEWS Sunday, November 9, 2014

HUMOR HUMOR Dispirited Dems now see an upside to colonizing on moon High-fl ying fun aid low by disgruntled o" ce, Democrats sought to f the family nickname would be hanging onto the voters and a poor portray the idea of a space were The Falling Wal- rope until rescuers arrived. Lshowing at the polls colony where Democrats Ilendas instead of The I say this with the same on Tuesday, dispirited wouldn’t have to answer Flying Wallendas, I suppose certainty that I admit I Democrats now see an to Republicans as a real they wouldn’t have lasted in could never have become upside to colonizing on the possibility, economically, the business. a professional baseball moon where they would at scientifi cally, and politically. The latest in the long player, a lead guitarist in a line of Flying Wallendas, LEE OSTASZEWSKI rock band, or a restaurant least be spared the frustra- PHILIP MADDOCKS They laid out a plan call- tion and humiliation of ing for infl atable Congress Nik, successfully walked hostess. (How do they keep working under a Republi- and White House space a tightrope between two track of all those tables? can-led House and Senate vetoes to block a conser- stations, capable of housing skyscrapers in Chicago. Part less than e! ective. And how do they know it for the next two years. vative agenda – faded on hundreds of lawmakers and of his tightrope walk he did As an aside to law will be 40 minutes?) “What has been a fantasy Tuesday, Democrats began lobbyists on the moon. while blindfolded. enforcement o" cials, it It’s not that I am afraid of of Newt Gingrich’s has to resign themselves to a Democrats claimed the I would have di" culty would make a lot of sense if heights. Nik Wallenda said now, sadly, become a real- life far from the center of enterprise wouldn’t cost walking on fl at ground your agencies started keep- when tightrope walking ity for Democrats,” said a power in Washington, D.C. taxpayers a cent, argu- blindfolded. ing a list of all abandoned he has no time to be afraid somber Mark Udall, the – some 250,000 miles to ing that the conservative And I’m not particularly warehouses in your area. because he must focus. I Colorado senator who lost be precise. activists Charles and David klutzy. I would say I am of This way, whenever you have no fear of climbing his seat to Republican Cory “The most important Koch would be more than average klutziness. But if need to fi nd where bad guys ladders or standing on a Gardner. thing we can do right now willing to pay the hundreds you blindfolded me and are operating, you have a roof. I’m am not afraid, nor “I know many of us is talk to actual voters,” of billions of dollars it told me to walk in a straight few places to start looking. am I particularly focused. I expected more of ourselves said a spokeswoman for would cost to send Demo- line, things would not go Think of all the drug merely avoid thinking about and less of our opponents, the Democratic Party. “And crats o! to Earth’s distant well. cartels you could bust doing falling. but it just didn’t work out since voters aren’t talk- natural satellite. That’s why in action that alone. I imagine com- If I did think about it, that way,” said Sen. Mark ing to us here, maybe we “I think it is easy to see movies, whenever the good mercial real estate agents however, I imagine myself Pryor of Arkansas, who like should look for some other how this is a win-win for guy gets kidnapped and hate showing abandoned safely landing in a slap- many of his fellow Demo- place where they are more everyone,” said Hoyer. blindfolded, the captors warehouses: “Well, there stick manner, similar to a crats was carrying around receptive to our message.” Democrats also laid always have a tight hold of are no homeless people Three Stooges bit. I would a copy of “To Renew For some Democrats down a challenge to that person. It’s not as if he living here, however there expect to be fi ne, except for America,” Mr. Gingrich’s the bitterness of Tuesday’s aerospace companies and can get away. Besides being is a criminal mastermind’s the crude special e! ects of 1995 book in which the defeat still lingered. deep-pocketed entrepre- blindfolded he usually has secret hideout. But they birds circling my head and one-time House speaker I'm pretty ticked at the neurs, o! ering a $10 billion his hands tied, too. said they could vacate with chirping. and 2012 Republican voters,” said Kay Hagan, prize for the fi rst venture The captors hold on tight 60 days notice.” Then I would get up o! presidential candidate pre- the Democratic senator to take the Senate majority because they know from If I were blindfolded and the ground and start poking dicted that "honeymoons from North Carolina who leader in waiting, Mitch extensive kidnapping expe- not guided by my captors, people playfully in the eye. in space will be the vogue lost to Thom Tillis, “but McConnell, on a trip to rience that a blindfolded there is zero chance I could You gotta love the Three by 2020." I still have a bit of faith. Mars. person is apt to walk right walk far without injuring Stooges. No concussion “I am not happy with the Why? Because in another “It’s the least we could do into a co! ee table. myself. So if you put me on protocols whatsoever. results. I am not particu- two years those same for Mitch,” said Mr. Reid. The bad guys in movies a thin rope strung between Of course falling o! a larly happy about going to voters will be begging to As party leaders mostly might be evil, but they don’t two skyscrapers; that is ladder is not the same as the moon. I am defi nitely come to the moon.” focused on the details and want their captives banging simply a death sentence. plunging from the height of unhappy that we as a party Others in the party had dollars and cents of setting their shins on the way to Granted, I have not a major skyscraper. That’s seem to be following the also begun the long e! ort up a new life in space, a the abandoned warehouse trained to tightrope walk. why from that height I lead of a standard-bearer to rationalize the decision few lawmakers looked loading dock where they With some lessons perhaps would demand the most of the extreme right, but to colonize away from elsewhere for comfort and plan to torture him. I could have a fi ghting extensive safety device that appears to be the Earth. a brighter future, seeking “Tell us what we want, chance. By fi ghting chance, possible: a solid building direction this party is “As distasteful as this peace of mind through a or we will walk you around I mean I would not fall surrounding me. heading,” said Rep. Steny defeat may be on a number sort of collective embrace of this abandoned warehouse right away. I would fall after Any falling I do would be Hoyer of Maryland, the of levels,” said Harry Reid the existential. blindfolded until you bang a step or two. Maximum. I tripping over a co! ee table. House minority whip. of Nevada, the outgoing Sen. Charles E. Schumer, your shins against more would be the fi rst and last Vanquished Demo- Senate majority leader, “we Democrat of New York, co! ee tables.” I have never of the famous tightrope Lee lives in Medway. crats sought to play down have a choice to make, just suggested that life was too been a kidnap victim, but I walking family, The Falling Email him at lee.online@ the signifi cance of their like the voters. And as far as unpredictable to prejudge am guessing this would be Ostazewskis. verizon.net. defeat at the hands of distancing ourselves from the wisdom of relocating to My only hope for survival Republicans, talking about the president, it doesn’t get the moon, or Tuesday’s lost “bad breaks,” an unusual much more distant than opportunity at the polls. Earthweek: A Diary of the Planet By Steve Newman electoral map stacked in this.” “Let’s keep ourselves in the GOP’s favor, and a On the plus side for the present, looking at what handful of narrow defeats, Democrats, the party’s exists right now,” he said. “It but it was clear something announcement about may not look pretty. But a 4.6 establishing a permanent transformational was afoot month from now, a meteor 3.1 after Tuesday’s election. base on the moon appeared might hit Earth or Newt Nuri As hopes for somehow to thrill the crowd of Gingrich might become 4.9 fi nding a way to head o! roughly 700 who gathered president.” a Republican takeover outside Mr. Reid’s o" ce in Vance of the Senate - and the the hope of seeing o! the Philip Maddocks writes a prospect of two years of party leaders. weekly satirical column. He congressional investiga- At the impromptu meet- can be reached at pmad- 4.3 tions and presidential ing near majority leader’s [email protected]. 5.3 +109° Mandora, NATIONAL VIEW W. Australia 4.3

A tale of two loafers -62° Vostok, his is the story of in the unlikely chance they Week Ending November 7, 2014 Antarctica a husband who noticed. Tbecame distracted - Besides, she feared that Ozone Healing Pause Monkey Malaria Costa Rican Blast as hard-working husbands appearing in the superior The hole in stratospheric An emerging monkey-borne The most violent eruption of sometimes do - and wore confi nes of the exclusive ozone over Antarctica has parasite spreading across Costa Rica’s Turrialba vol- two di! erent brown loafers Duquesne Club with the remained stubbornly large Southeast Asia was released cano in 150 years sent a to work, one with tassels REG HENRY wrong shoes would set o! in recent years despite a into the human population plume of ash soaring high and one without. some sort of alarm. Butlers worldwide ban since 1987 on the chlo- through unbridled deforestation in re- above the country, prompting authori- No better time exists would appear and foot- So he went on with his rine emissions that created it, accord- cent decades, primarily from expand- ties to evacuate some nearby residents for this story because in men would rush forward day. He heard no gu! aws ing to NASA. While this year’s maxi- ing palm oil plantations and demand as a precaution. Eyewitnesses said some quarters weeping and speakers would blare, in the cafeteria, saw no mum expanse of the ozone hole, for timber. Plasmodium knowlesi ma- they heard “booming sounds” about and gnashing of teeth have "Class impostor alert! Class stares in the street as he reached on Sept. 9, was about 9 per- laria has long been endemic among the 40 minutes before ash began billowing greeted the results of the impostor alert!" and she walked to his Rotary Club cent less than the record set in 2000, its long-tailed and pig-tailed macaque from the volcano. midterm election - and not would be mortifi ed. meeting. Once there, the coverage was about the same as during populations of Malaysia and nearby just among the people who So that night she brought Rotarians made no jokes at 2010, 2012 and 2013. Earth’s ozone countries. It remained isolated from Earthquakes make the political ads on the missing loafer (the one his expense - and as a group layer helps shield life on the surface the human population by the dense Eastern Zambia and neigh- TV and are forced to return with the tassels) with her they love a joke. His feet from potentially harmful ultraviolet tropical rain forest habitats of the ma- boring Tanzania were to honest employment. and the husband dutifully just weren't drawing any radiation that can cause skin cancer, caques until deforestation cleared the rocked on Oct. 31 by a 5.3 So in the interest of smil- put it on, silently asking interest. cataracts and plant damage. The rea- forests. New roads that were built dur- ing bravely through our himself, "Am I a man or magnitude temblor, cen- By midafternoon, he son the hole isn’t closing up despite no ing the process allowed humans in- tears, if tears they be, let us a mouse?" and imagining tered in Zambia’s Luapula province. decided to risk telling his new chlorofluorocarbons being re- fected in the wild to carry the parasite then consider the husband then some squeaking. So it • Earth movements were also felt wife. This was dangerous leased into the atmosphere is clouded elsewhere. Research presented at the who got o! on the wrong was that the prime minister in northern Holland, Western Austra- because she is always on the foot just the other day. and all the people and all by a complex interaction between it American Society of Tropical Medi- lia, Costa Rica, the Alaska Panhandle outlook for evidence that he He did not know that he the butlers and footmen and climate change, scientists say. cine and Hygiene’s annual meeting and northwestern Nevada. is "losing it," as she likes to was wearing two di! erent were none the wiser. “The ozone hole itself is affecting the revealed that Plasmodium knowlesi say. But as he had lost only shoes until midmorning, There is a moral to this climate of Antarctica and Australia, malaria is now the leading cause of Bird Breakups one shoe in his distrac- No co-worker alerted him. admittedly odd column, and is being affected by it. It is chang- malaria hospitalizations in Malaysia. New research finds that tion, he thought she might As it was just a normal boys and girls. When you ing the wind systems,” said Jonathan While the parasite causes only mild while most birds appear to think it funny. She did. She workaday morning in are in kindergarten and Shanklin of the British Antarctic Sur- symptoms in macaques, it has become be attentive parents and roared with laughter. America, everybody was they teach you how to tie vey, one of the three scientists who the fastest-replicating malaria parasite faithful mates, divorce is But then her voice completely oblivious. He your shoelaces, pay special discovered the hole in the 1980s. He in humans, multiplying every 24 hours actually common among many spe- changed and the phone just happened to glance attention. A person who ties tells The Guardian he expects the in the blood. The research concludes cies and plays a role in breeding suc- call suddenly became very down and noticed tassels. his laces will not make the ozone hole to gradually fill in even as that Plasmodium knowlesi has joined cess. Writing in the journal Biological solemn. "Tonight we are That's funny, he said to same mistake as our loafi ng the effects of climate change increase AIDS and Ebola as emerging or re- Reviews, study author Antica Culina going to a reception at the himself, I did not mean husband did. When you over the next 50 years or so. emerging dangerous diseases being says she and her colleagues observed Duquesne Club for former to put on my party shoes. tie laces, you look into the passed to humans as more and more that divorce occurs in 92 percent of all Australian Prime Minister Then he looked at the eyelets of the shoes and see The Zero Option layers of once-isolated tropical forest Julia Gillard and then we monogamous bird populations. The other shoe and noticed the there fashion security. The U.N. panel on climate are ravaged by human development. are going to hear her lec- team found that birds were most likely absence of tassels - and he There's a moral here for change concludes in its ture. You cannot go without to divorce when breeding success was realized that at least he had post-election adults, too. fourth and final volume of Tropical Cyclones matching shoes." low. But the research found that when gotten it half right. He also You may be disappointed The husband said no climate assessment that hu- Former Category-2 Hurri- birds break up, it isn’t always good for noticed that in every other with the results but you worries - the Australians mans may be forced to reduce green- cane Vance brought local the guy. “Females who divorce gain aspect these brown loafers can still put your best foot are an informal people and house gas emissions to zero this cen- flash flooding and gusty better breeding success with a new were completely di! erent forward without fear of the prime minister would tury to avoid global temperatures winds to northwestern partner, but males who divorce show styles. embarrassment or marital not mind if one man in the rising to dangerous levels. It also Mexico’s Sinaloa state. Moisture no improvement,” Culina says. She He was a little embar- correction, not like one crowd was one loafer short warns that failure to eliminate the use streaming northeastward from the found that since females have a little rassed but only a little, husband I know. (OK, it of a load. But the man's of fossil fuels could compel the world weakening storm triggered heavy rain- control over how many eggs they lay, because this is America was me.) wife minded. She minded to find ways of removing carbon emis- fall over Texas. a small number of offspring may mean and people wear all sorts of Reg Henry is deputy very much, because if her sions from the atmosphere in the fu- • Super Typhoon Nuri attained the female is not happy with her mate outlandish clothing without editorial-page editor for the husband were to appear ture. The Intergovernmental Panel on Category-5 force over the open waters and wants him to move on. anybody saying anything. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. in public with ill-matched Climate Change’s assessment also of the western Pacific before dissipat- Just visit any golf course to Readers may email him at Distributed by: Universal Uclick loafers, everybody of says humans are to blame for nearly all ing well east of Japan. The storm was www.earthweek.com confi rm this observation. [email protected]. course would blame her, global warming since the 1950s. mainly a threat to shipping lanes. © MMXIV Earth Environment Service Sunday, November 16, 2014 THE DAILY NEWS E1

OPINION BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY INSIDE CONTACT Opinion Editor Rick Holmes at [email protected] or 508-626-3932 Will Springfi eld rise again? New casino is just part of a planned ‘renaissance’

RICK HOLMES

ou could say Springfi eld’s decline Y started in 1968, when good manufacturing jobs started to disappear and urban blight took their place. This small city on the Connecticut River had been a manufacturing hub since George Washington decided this was where the muskets used by the Continental Army would be built. The Springfi eld Armory became a center for manufacturing inno- vation. It attracted, and created, a skilled work- force that overfl owed to other shops and other industries. The Springfi eld Rifl e was born here, and so was the Indian motor- cycle, vulcanized rubber, interchangeable parts, the horseless carriage and basketball. When my grandfather arrived from Ireland, the Pioneer Valley hummed with manufacturing. He got a job at the Spaulding factory, making golf clubs, and other sporting goods. My father worked at the Visions of Springfield, clockwise from top left: The South End Community Center, damaged in the tornado that hit downtown Spring- Strathmore Paper Co. field in 2011, will be a centerpiece of the MGM Springfield complex; the Pioneer Valley, seen from the Springfield Armory National plant in West Springfi eld, Historic Site; children at play in the Dr. Seuss Memorial Sculpture Garden; Memorial Bridge over the Connecticut River. Bottom Row: where rag fi bers cooked in Three views of MGM’s casino complex. DAILY NEWS PHOTOS BY RICK HOLMES. giant tanks and were spun into fi ne stationary and artists’ sketchpads. The names live on, but those jobs are long gone. Springfi eld’s ‘inside out’ casino The Springfi eld Armory By Rick Holmes businesses. the heart of Springfi eld’s Venice and ancient beauty,” Mathis said. “We closed in 1968, putting Opinion Editor MGM Springfi eld is a South End. It will include Egypt, specializes in the would spend hundreds of 6,000 people out of work. di! erent model, designed shops, apartments, non-gaming part of the millions of dollars recreat- Its name is now used by a ne criticism of to embrace and enhance restaurants, a cinema resort experience. As they ing that in Vegas.” private gun manufacturer casino develop- its surroundings, Mike and bowling center and walked around down- MGM will preserve in Illinois. The Chicopee ments, often on Mathis, the project’s presi- a garage o! ering 3,600 town Springfi eld, with its the Main Street facades, Spaulding operation was O bought by Calloway, which the mark, is that they are dent and chief operating free parking spots, open to vintage Main Street, the and put similar early- self-enclosed worlds, with- o" cer, told me this week. everyone, not just casino Connecticut River, and the 20th century touches on eventually moved the jobs out windows and clocks, He calls it the world’s fi rst guests. stately church and civic new construction. Four to Mexico. You can still designed to keep gamblers “inside out” casino resort. MGM, whose Las buildings on Court Square historic buildings will buy Strathmore paper, but gambling, that suck the The 14-acre complex Vegas properties include just steps from the casino life out of Main Street is right on Main Street in evocations of New York, site, “we marveled at the SEE CASINO, E2 SEE HOLMES, E2

NATIONAL VIEW GLOBAL VIEW It’s now time for A breakthrough on climate change ‘America’s agenda’ China will keep Beyond Democrats’ its end; the U.S. very bad day maybe not hen news got out here have been that US President terrible, horrible, Barack Obama GWYNNE DYER Tno good, very andW China’s President Xi bad Election Days for ELIZABETH WARREN Jinping had reached an Democrats before — and agreement on climate its commitments, because Republicans have had a change, the American the American political few of those, too. Such blogosphere lit up with system is mired in a per- days are always followed - any deals - just to show petual civil war and at the he can do business. The negative comments. “The by plenty of pronounce- moment it is the climate- President Barack Obama, left, toasts with Chinese solution requires an problem is, Obama prob- ments about what just ably means it,” wrote Jazz change deniers who have President Xi Jinping in Beijing Wednesday after agree- changed and what's honest recognition of the the upper hand. Whereas ing to limit the growth of their country’s carbon kind of changes needed Shaw of the major conser- emissions. AP PHOTO BY GREG BAKER going to be di! erent vative political blog Hot the Chinese will probably going forward. if families are going to keep their word, because get a shot at building a Air, “while China is almost But for all the talk of there are no denialists in or earlier (and, by implica- secure future. certainly just yanking the carbon dioxide have taken change in Washington China and the government tion, then start to decline). It's not about big world's collective chain together. Obama promised and in states where one is genuinely terrifi ed of That looks a bit lop- government or small yet again with a bit of lip that the US will reduce party is taking over from climate change. sided, of course, but any government. It's not the service as they seek better its greenhouse gas emis- another, one thing has The Obama-Xi deal is deal that takes account of size of government that trade arrangements.” sions to at least 26 percent not changed: The stock not wonderful, but it is current realities is bound worries people; rather But Jazz Shaw has got below the 2005 level by market and gross domes- it exactly backwards. It’s the fi rst step in the right 2025. Xi promised more to look like that. China is tic product keep going it's deep-down concern direction that the world’s over who government the United States that vaguely that China’s emis- up, while families are cannot be trusted to keep two biggest emitters of sion would peak by 2030 SEE DYER, E2 getting squeezed hard works for. People are by an economy that isn't ready to work, ready to do their part, ready to working for them. MORE OPINIONS INSIDE The solution to this fi ght for their futures isn't a basket of quickly and their kids' futures, OUR VIEW: Massachusetts is better for business than some foreign policy. 2E passed laws designed to but they see a govern- critics say. 4E prove Congress can do ment that bows and STATE VIEW: George Donnelly on Massachusetts Republi- LOCAL VIEW: Glenn Ickler on a volcano's threat to a favor- cans. 3E something - anything. scrapes for big corpora- tions, big banks, big oil ite watering hole. 3E The solution isn't for the NATIONAL VIEW: Mark Zandi sees nothing but good news president to cut deals SEE WARREN, E2 NATIONAL VIEW: George Will on a needed debate over U.S. on the energy front. 5E E2 THE DAILY NEWS Sunday, November 16, 2014

NATIONAL VIEW DAVIES' VIEW Rethinking U.S. foreign policy arack Obama's coming reported assurances to request for Congress to his former ambassador to B"right-size and update" Moscow, William Bullitt: "I the Authorization for Use think if I give [Stalin] every- of Military Force (AUMF) thing that I possibly can and against terrorism will be ask nothing from him in constitutionally fastidious return, noblesse oblige, he and will catalyze a debate GEORGE F. WILL won't try to annex anything that will illuminate Republi- and will work for a world of can fi ssures. They, however, democracy and peace." are signs of a healthy devel- Taft - primarily concerned The last 11 years have been opment - the reappearance the proper scope and actual fi lled with hard learning. of foreign policy heterodoxy competence of govern- The 2003 invasion of Iraq, in Republican ranks. ment in domestic a! airs. the worst foreign policy Many events (U.S. Rockefeller's credentials as decision in U.S. history, military misadventures since a cold warrior, from military coincided with mission 2001, the Syrian civil war, spending to fallout shel- creep ("nation building") in the rise of the Islamic State, ters for civil defense, were Afghanistan. Both strength- the spinning centrifuges impeccable. ened what can be called the impose. The real di! erence emissions by 2030 without of Iran's nuclear weapons Now, however, Americans Republicans' John Quincy DYER lies in the likelihood that a great deal of discussion program) and one senator generally, but Republicans Adams faction: "[America] From Page E1 the two sides will stick to and debate within the (Rand Paul) have reopened especially, are thinking goes not abroad, in search the deal over the next 10-15 regime. Having made the a Republican debate that afresh about the world. of monsters to destroy. She still a poor country, and years as they have prom- promise, he will keep it. So essentially closed when Henry Kissinger's new is the well-wisher to the free- it is racing to grow its ised. China probably will. will his successors, at least Dwight Eisenhower won the book, "World Order," deftly dom and independence of economy fast enough to The United States probably so long as the Communist 1952 Republican presiden- diagnoses America's bipolar all. She is the champion and preserve political stabil- won’t. Party goes on ruling China. tial nomination. One reason mental condition regarding vindicator only of her own." ity. That means it has to The Chinese regime Whereas Obama will be he sought it was to block foreign policy, a condition The coming debate about generate a lot more energy knows what global warm- gone in two years, and Ohio's Sen. Robert Taft. that is perennial because it is another AUMF will come fast. ing will do to the country cannot bind his successors Taft's skepticism about congenital. "The conviction in a context conditioned by China is installing a if it is not contained. A to keep his promise in any NATO and collective that American principles Obama's aggressive use of great deal of clean power study commissioned by way. security was not quite iso- are universal," Kissinger his expansive understanding (around half the world’s the World Bank about Indeed, even in the past lationism - a label bandied says, "has introduced a of executive powers, at home new solar energy plants a decade ago, but never six years he has never got carelessly today by promis- challenging element into and abroad. Molly O'Toole, last year, for example), but published (quite likely any legislation on climate cuous interventionists - but the international system writing for Defense One in just to keep the lights on at China’s insistence), change through the Repub- was discordant with the because it implies that August, noted: it has to go on building concluded that if average lican-dominated House of postwar internationalism governments not practic- "The 2001 AUMF that lots of fossil-fuel plants as global temperature rises by Representatives. Instead, of the Republican estab- ing them are less than fully Congress passed in the fear- well – and most of them 2 degrees C, China will lose he had to resort to issuing lishment and the nation. legitimate." This "suggests ful days following the Sept. burn the dirtiest fuel, coal. about 38 percent of its food executive orders through Eisenhower's victory (and that a signifi cant portion of 11 attacks has been called O" cial policy is driving the production. the Environmental Protec- Taft's death the next year) the world lives under a kind the most far-reaching, open- number of new coal-fi red As in all predictions of tion Agency (EPA) to make sealed the Republicans' near of unsatisfactory, probation- ended expansion of the plants down, however, this sort, that number may even modest improve- unanimity that had begun ary arrangement, and will executive's powers in U.S. which is one reason why be wrong by fi ve or even ments like raising the fuel to form in January 1945 one day be redeemed; in the history. Though the AMUF's Xi thinks he can keep his ten percentage points, but e" ciency of US-made cars. when another Midwestern meantime, their relations mere 60 words made no promise that emissions will that doesn’t really matter. Now the House has Republican senator, Michi- with the world's strongest mention of al-Qaida or stop growing by 2030. Even a 28 percent loss of voted to repeal the EPA's gan's Arthur Vandenberg, power must have some Afghanistan, they provided Obama, by contrast, food production would authority to regulate changed his mind. latent adversarial element to President George W. Bush presides over an economy mean semi-permanent greenhouse gases under the He had been a senator them." the statutory authority for that is already very rich. famine in China. The Clean Air Act, which would since 1928 and an isolation- A "challenging element," the war in Afghanistan and The average American regime would not sur- strip even that power from ist always. Then his Jan. indeed. It has, Kissinger on 'terror,' and the legal citizen still consumes twice vive that, and much of him. The new Republican 10, 1945, Senate speech writes, made America underpinnings for almost as much energy as the the growth that has been majority in the Senate repositioned him and his uncomfortable with "for- any use of U.S. military average Chinese, but total achieved by great sacrifi ce will probably do the same. party: "I do not believe that eign policy as a permanent force to counter terrorism US energy consumption in the past three decades Obama could veto such a any nation hereafter can endeavor for contingent anywhere across the globe stopped rising years ago. would be lost. law, but all the Republicans immunize itself by its own aims." for the past 13 years." Making 26 percent cuts in Beijing takes climate have to do is attach it to exclusive action. ... Our On the other hand, The 2001 AUMF could American energy use over change VERY seriously. the budget and they would oceans have ceased to be "America's favorable geog- not have anticipated today's the next ten years is not Even though the regime set up a confrontation that moats." raphy and vast resources variables. The AUMF of a huge challenge; it only must also keep the eco- would shut the US govern- The Republican schism facilitated a perception 2002 (Iraq) followed the requires a reduction of nomic growth going if it ment down again. of the 1960s, between the that foreign policy was an Iraq Liberation Act of 1998, about 2.6 percent a year. wishes to survive, it knows The Chinese know this, Barry Goldwater and Nelson optional activity." Because which passed the House So the American and that it must start making of course, but they are so Rockefeller factions - itself U.S. principles are assumed 360-38 and the Senate Chinese commitments in real concessions on emis- desperate to get matters a reprise of the 1912 intra- to be universal, the inclina- unanimously, and declared the new deal, while asym- sions in order to facilitate a moving on the climate party confl ict between tion to cooperate is assumed it U.S. policy to "remove the metrical, are not unequal global deal. front that they are willing Theodore Roosevelt and to be at least generally latent. regime headed by Saddam in terms of the political and Xi did not set this to take a chance that the President William Howard Hence Franklin Roosevelt's Hussein." economic burdens they target of capping Chinese deal will survive.

historic Symphony Hall and it easier for businesses deeply suspicious of fi nancial institutions that CityStage theater, all a short CASINO to create good jobs here trade deals negotiated in continue to threaten our From Page E1 walk from MGM. WARREN From Page E1 in America, investments secret, with chief execu- economy, and on giving MGM Springfi eld is right in medical and scientifi c tives invited into the people struggling with next to I-91, and greeters be preserved on the site. A research that spur new room while the workers high- interest student at its downtown o" ce are companies and big politi- castle-like armory building discoveries and economic whose jobs are on the loans the same chance to already hearing from New cal donors - and they will become a restaurant growth, and investments line are locked outside. refi nance their debt that Yorkers who plan to spend know this government and the backdrop for an in educating our children They have been burned every Wall Street cor- Friday nights in Springfi eld does not work for them. outdoor performance area so they can build a future enough times on tax deals poration enjoys. There's on their way north for week- The American people in the resort’s courtyard. The for themselves and their that carefully protect the no shortage of work that ends on the ski slopes. Six want a fi ghting chance Victorian First Spiritualist children. tender fannies of bil- Congress can do, but Flags is just across the river. to build better lives for Church will hold a restau- Before leaders in Con- lionaires and big oil and the agenda shouldn't be A family could pack a week- their families. They want rant or shop. The former gress and the president other big political donors, drawn up by a bunch of end full of entertainment a government that will headquarters of Mass. get caught up in proving while working families corporate lobbyists and without gambling a dime. stand up to the big banks Mutual Insurance will house they can pass some new just get hammered. They lawyers. Springfi eld has other when they break the law. o" ces, while a majestic pil- laws, everyone should are appalled by Wall Change is hard, espe- amenities worth a visitor’s A government that helps lared façade on State Street take a skeptical look at Street banks that got tax- cially when the playing time. The Dr. Seuss Memo- out students who are becomes a stately entrance whom those new laws payer bailouts and now fi eld is already tilted so rial Sculpture Garden, getting crushed by debt. to the modern glass tower of will serve. At this very whine that the laws are far in favor of those with honoring one of Spring- A government that will the MGM hotel. minute, lobbyists and too tough, even as they money and infl uence. But fi eld’s favorite sons, is a protect and expand Social MGM’s customers will lawyers are lining up by rake in billions in profi ts. this government belongs delight for all ages, and is Security for our seniors fan out into the city around the thousands to push for If cutting deals means to the American people, surrounded by several small and raise the minimum them. They can walk to the new laws - laws that will helping big corporations, and it's time to work museums. Forest Park is, at wage. riverside park, which will help their rich and pow- Wall Street banks and on America's agenda. 735 acres, one of the larg- Americans understand get an upgrade with money erful clients get richer the already-powerful, America is ready - and est municipal parks in the that building a prosper- from MGM, and to the Bas- and more powerful. that isn't a victory for the Congress should be ready, country, with a zoo and an ous future isn't free. ketball Hall of Fame. They Hoping to catch a wave American people - it's too. impressive holiday lights They want us to invest can wander over to Red of dealmaking, these lob- just another round of the display. carefully and prudently, Rose Pizza, a local favorite byists and lawyers - and same old rigged game. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, After a long period of sharply aware that that will continue operations their well-heeled cli- Yes, we need action. a Democrat, is the senior economic stagnation, Congress spends the on Main Street as the MGM ents - are looking for the But action must be senator from Massachu- Springfi eld’s citizens and people's money. They resort grows all around it. chance to rig the game focused in the right setts. This piece was fi rst business leaders are upbeat want us to make invest- MGM won’t be build- just a little more. place: on ending tax laws published in The Wash- about the city’s future. ments that will pay o! ing its own performance But the lobbyists' riddled with loopholes ington Post. “Springfi eld was once a in their lives, invest- venues. Instead it will use agenda is not America's that favor giant corpora- great American city,” Mathis ments in the roads and the MassMutual Center, power grids that make agenda. Americans are tions, on breaking up the where it promises at least said, “and it can be that 12 concerts a year, the again.”

fortunes. an $85 million check to the for Springfi eld residents. o" cials announced last State’s calling card. HOLMES Then things got worse. commonwealth. Most of them will be hotel month that a Chinese Meanwhile, up on a hill From Page E1 In June 2011, a tornado MGM Springfi eld will and restaurant jobs - not manufacturer will build a overlooking downtown ripped through downtown fi ll the hole left by decades especially high-paying, but $55 million plant in East sits the aging buildings they don’t make it in West Springfi eld. Among its of decay and the tornado’s Springfi eld’s unemployment Springfi eld – on a site of the historic Springfi eld Springfi eld anymore. victims: a castle-like former winds. It will have restau- rate is still over 10 percent, cleared for a rejected casino Armory, which now house In the decades since the state armory that housed rants, stores, apartments, so they will be welcome. proposal, as it happens – the Springfi eld Technical bottom fell out, Springfi eld the South End Community movies, bowling and a It’s no surprise its voters to build hundreds of new Community College. There, has tried one thing after Center. A year later, a huge towering hotel. It’s right approved the MGM pro- MBTA cars. Those are MGM is helping create another to get back on track. natural gas explosion leveled on Main Street, with the posal by a wide margin. serious manufacturing jobs, and fund the Mass. Casino The city built a conven- a building a few blocks away. MassMutual Center on one Casinos alone are not a but there are just 250 of Training Institute. STCC tion center – now known Springfi eld, it appeared, corner and the Basketball great economic develop- them. Robots work modern will also be home to a new as the MassMutual Center could not catch a break. Hall of Fame on the opposite ment strategy, as opponents assembly lines, while people advanced manufacturing and owned by the state - to But Springfi eld came up corner. Four historic build- like to point out. But tour- change linens in hotels and program announced by state attract new downtown a big winner on Election ings will be incorporated ism in Massachusetts is a deal poker in casinos. o" cials this summer. hotels and convention Day. Voters across the state into the design, with the $17 billion industry, one The state has also just Can Springfi eld rise business. The city leveraged endorsed expanded gaming castle-like armory housing a that will grow when MGM opened UMass-Amherst’s again, reclaiming its legacy its status as the birthplace in Massachusetts, clearing restaurant that will serve as Springfi eld, the Wynn resort fi rst satellite campus in a as center of high-tech of basketball to land the the way for three casinos the architectural centerpiece in Everett and a third casino high-rise o" ce building in manufacturing as well as National Basketball Hall of and a slots parlor. This week, of the resort’s courtyard. in Southeastern Mass. are downtown Springfi eld, as a destination for visitors in Fame. They weren’t total MGM Resorts Interna- The casino will also bring up and running. a way to spread tech-based search of entertainment and failures, but they didn’t tional will seal the deal for a the city $25 million a year But there’s more to what prosperity down the Pioneer games of chance? Time will generate the critical mass resort casino in downtown and 3,000 permanent jobs, some are calling Spring- Valley and create the skilled tell, but I’m one native son needed to revive the city’s Springfi eld by presenting a third of them reserved fi eld’s renaissance. State workforce that is the Bay pulling for its success. Sunday, November 16, 2014 THE DAILY NEWS E3

GRANLUND'S VIEW LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ‘Catcalls’ just because drugs change the brain in ways that foster friendly greetings compulsive drug abuse, Recently a video show- quitting is di! cult, even ing a day in the life of a for those who are ready New York City woman to do so. Through scien- has gone viral. This video tifi c advances, we know shows a normal-looking more about how drugs woman walking through work in the brain than the streets and being ever, and we also know “harassed” by random that drug addiction can men along the road. My be successfully treated to question is, how do you help people stop abusing defi ne harassment? A drugs and learn to lead few quotes from these productive lives. god-awful men may shed In 2012, less than 12 some light on the defi ni- percent of the estimated tion the creators had in 23.1 million Americans mind. over the age of 12 who “Hello.” needed treatment for a “Have a nice day.” drug or alcohol abuse “Good evening.” problem, received it. And All things said to this in too many cases, the woman by random men treatment was insuf- in the street. If these fi cient and, therefore, men had made advances ine" ective. The relapse LOCAL VIEW toward the woman or rate for addicts who have said anything else it may undergone only short have been an issue but term treatment (30 days they just muttered these or less) is between 40 few words and went on and 90 percent within The bar beneath the volcano with their day. the fi rst 30 days after the ith all of our Ebola appease Pele and keep her Now Sammy’s Bar stands I’m not going to lie rehab program, often patients healed calm by tossing bottles of in the path of a lava fl ow and say that some of the deadly consequences. and the country’s gin into the crater. When that has been described as men in this video weren’t Research tells us W that e" ective inpatient terrifying epidemic o! - Kilauea erupted a year later, “dense, hot and relentless.” creepy guys with creepy cially over (more American Jo and I concluded that Pele Some residents are plead- intentions, but many of treatment leads to long men have been married to had not been gifted with ing with the Hawaiian Civil the men shown “catcall- term sobriety and fewer Kim Kardashian than have enough bottles of gin. Defense to divert the lava. ing” in this video were relapses. Ninety-day contracted Ebola) our politi- GLENN ICKLER We collected tiny green Civil Defense o! cials are just normal guys with no residential drug rehab is cians need a new crisis to glass beads, known as declining because a diver- bad intentions. The way suggested as the mini- fanatically obsess about. leave. My wife, Jo, and I Pele’s tears, which had been sion would simply send the this video presents these mum length of time for I have the perfect crisis: chose to spend fi ve days at formed by the heat of the fl ow into someone else’s men demonizes a simple e" ective treatment. In Sammy’s Bar in Pahoa is in the U.S. Military Rest Camp lava. We walked beside a back yard. compliment or greeting fact, a long-term stay the path of a volcanic lava near the rim of the Kilauea young native Hawaiian, A volcano expert, Erik by presenting it as a form at a drug rehab facility fl ow. crater. At that time, Kilauea who told us that he knew Klemetti, assistant professor of harassment toward can decrease the risk of In case you’ve missed had been dormant for the legend of Pele was just of Geosciences at Davison this woman. drug addiction relapse the reports, Pahoa is a several decades. The camp a pagan fable that had University, says that past This unfortunately viral by up to 73 percent. That village of about 900 souls provided bus tours of the Big been debunked as fi ction attempts at diversions video has misconstrued can mean the di" erence located downhill from Island for us everyday, with by 19th-century Christian have “mostly failed.” When the friendly greetings of between addiction and Kilauea crater, which has free day care for our one- missionaries, but he still felt encountering a barrier, the many men. Although this recovery - or even life and been erupting since 1983, year-old son. nervous about encroaching lava infl ates like a balloon to video does show some death. on the island of Hawaii. We walked to the rim of on her territory as he walked heights of 12 to 18 feet and men taking it one step The A" ordable Care At this writing, the lava the crater and we walked on the lava beds. forms an outer shell through too far, there are also just Act must be amended to (temperature 2,110 degrees) across vast fi elds of lava We traveled all over the which lava continues to fl ow. as many that attempted provide for a minimum of had reached the town dump from previous eruptions. We Big Island in all directions, I watched a public forum to make a simple com- 90 days inpatient drug or and was only 480 feet from walked through Lava Tree but no matter where we in Pahoa on You Tube this pliment and both types alcohol treatment up to a Pahoa Village Road, the site State Park, where in 1790 were going the road always past week and heard a native of men were equally maximum of 180 days per of Sammy’s Bar. trees had been surrounded led through Pahoa and Hawaiian woman tell the punished. year at a facility certifi ed This is vitally important by hot lava, which burned required a stop at Sammy’s diversion seekers that they to provide such care by MATT TORONTO to me because I have a away the trunks and left Bar. This was curious, are living in Pele’s house, the Secretary of Health Northborough personal relationship with hollow pillars of hardened because Pahoa is in a tiny and if Pele wants to “clean of the state in which it is Sammy’s Bar that goes back lava with tree bark impres- corner of the island and isn’t house” she has a right to do located. to 1958. sions inside. We walked on directly on the road to any- so. “Just be glad that you had There is a petition at Act would give MoveOn.org - Anthony's As a greenhorn Navy Black Sand Beach, where thing but the lava trees. a chance to live in Paradise addicts a chance ensign fresh out of school the coarse sand was actually Every day the 40-some- for all these years,” she said. Act – To Give Addicts a in the summer of 1957, I grains of lava formed when passenger bus stopped at It’s obvious to me that the Please support Real Chance at Recovery was ordered to duty with the hot magma hit the cold Sammy’s Bar and everyone only way to save Sammy’s “Anthony’s Act.” Let’s give - seeking support for this Airborne Early Warning water and exploded. got o" and went in. Some- Bar is to appease Pele. I addicts a real chance at amendment. Squadron VW-12 at Naval We heard tales of Pele, the times it was too early in the want to resolve this crisis in recovery. I urge everyone who Air Station Barbers Point. goddess of volcanoes, who morning for a beer (for Jo true American political fash- Every day in this believes that addicts Barbers Point is on the was described as power- and I, anyway) but it was ion. If everyone who reads country119 people die should be given a real island of Oahu, a few miles ful, passionate, jealous and never too early for a pastry this sends me $5 I will buy from drug overdose, and chance at recovery to go up the road from Pearl capricious. We were told and a cup of co" ee. It got so a bottle of gin and an airline another 6,748 are treated to this site: http://peti- Harbor. that George Lycurgus, the that everyone cheered when ticket to Hilo. Aloha! in emergency rooms. tions.moveon.org/sign/ After one year of fl ying 99-year-old owner of the our guide said our next stop That averages out to an anthonys-act, sign the 15-hour patrol missions, I rim-side Volcano House would be Sammy’s Bar in Glenn Ickler of Hopedale is a overdose related hospital- petition and e-mail it to was entitled to a one-week Hotel, urged people to Pahoa. retired newspaper editor. ization every 13 seconds at least fi ve friends and and an overdose death ask them to sign it and every 13 minutes. Drug forward it to fi ve of their STATE VIEW Overdose is now the friends. If you have a face leading cause of acciden- book page or if you tweet tal death in the United please post the link and The predicament of the Massachusetts Republican States, outstripping ask your online friends tra! c fatalities or gun to sign it and forward it By George Donnelly Party would be good for abortion, and immigration? champions of business homicides. And every along. Guest Columnist Massachusetts, create more It's the reason fi scal conser- and economic opportunity. year it gets worse. We are losing an entire dynamism in policy debates vatives like me don't enroll That is their natural calling Substance abuse costs generation. Let’s take hey have been treated and possibly invigorate the in the party. card. Yet there is no party the U.S. economy over action today to change like 1950s children, Democrats. The Massachusetts GOP of business in Massachu- $600 billion annually. that. Please support Tleft to play on their Credit Massachusetts' did itself no favors when setts, in part because the E" ective treatment can Anthony’s Act. own, and sometimes squab- Republican forces for show- it adopted a platform for Republicans have been too dramatically reduce bling among themselves ing some vigor of their own its 2014 state convention marginalized to e" ect policy these costs. According GLENYCE SONES with nobody paying much this election. They added that embraced "traditional" toward improving the busi- to several conservative Marlborough attention. Now, the most two senators to their ranks, marriage and stated, ness climate. As good as the estimates, every dollar politically powerful person including the seat held by "every instance of abortion economy has been in the invested in addiction in Massachusetts will be one retiring Senate President is tragic." That platform past three years, there is Shoe doctor, not treatment programs foot doctor of theirs. And the Massa- Therese Murray, bringing refl ected a split in the state's plenty of room for improve- yields a return of between chusetts GOP, especially its the total to a mighty six GOP between the conserva- ment, especially west of $4 and $7 in reduced I would like to respect- few elected leaders, small in (out of a total of 40). In the tives and the moderates. Route 495. Even Massa- drug-related crime, fully correct your front number and largely ignored House, Republicans picked Even a small party like the chusetts' fastest-growing criminal justice costs, page above fold caption for so long, will come out of up fi ve seats, and will have Massachusetts GOP is not companies are handcu" ed and theft. When savings of the photo of: Cobbler the shadows. 34 reps out of 160 when monolithic. by high costs and a shortage related to healthcare are Joe Mueller of Milford It sounds like a good the Legislature convenes Baker ran as far from of human capital. A party included, total savings Shoe Repair (Nov. 7). story line. But don't bet on next year. All the same, they those conservative social that loudly aligns itself with can exceed costs by a “SHOE DOCTOR” it. The gravitational forces remain a puny legislative values as he could, earning jobs and economic oppor- ratio of 12 to 1. Major sav- would have been the weighing against the Bay force, now only slightly less him a RINO (Republican in tunity stands to win some ings to the individual and proper caption. State Republicans are still insignifi cant. name only) moniker from converts. to society also stem from A cobbler is a profes- very strong, and actually They have other chal- the hard-core conservative The Bay State's GOP fewer interpersonal con- sion with value, but to may increase as the GOP lenges, especially fortifying wing. He won by creating also needs to forge a fl icts; greater workplace call him a “foot doctor” takes over Congress next the underlying foundation his own brand of Republi- compelling message to the productivity; and fewer (one who has to spend year. The local Republican of the party, which continues canism, borrowing heavily ever-growing immigrant drug-related accidents, years in school learning messages of fi scal sobriety to su" er from enrollment from the Bill Weld school of population. In Massachu- including overdoses and and in practice of his/her and economic growth may attrition. Only 10.9 percent politics. More than any- setts, demographics are deaths. profession before earning be drowned out by the noise of the commonwealth is thing, he was simply Charlie political destiny, and the Many people mis- a degree) is a grave dis- from the national stage. The registered Republican, or Baker, as non-frightening local GOP risks looking takenly believe that service to the Podiatrist grinning face of Kentucky's about 469,000 voters, down a Republican one could hopelessly out of touch if addiction is a personal and Orthopedist. Mitch McConnell, and the almost 12 percent since fi nd while still being a it fails to champion the choice and that drug Please, refer to the culture wars that are certain October 2004. Republican. economic vibrancy and abusers lack moral prin- dictionary more often. to continue, will be a drag The enrollment decline Baker succeeded in potential of the Bay State's ciples or willpower and I’m certain you wouldn’t on Bay State Republicans' can be attributed to several cultivating his own middle- aspiring immigrant popu- that they could stop using want every child in fortunes unless they focus factors, including a lack of of-the-road persona, but it lation. The Massachusetts drugs simply by choosing elementary school to be intently on the theme of money and organizational will be a challenge for him GOP has tried to expand to change their behavior. called an “editor” because opportunity for all. heft. But the big elephant in and the party to update and its base in urban areas, but In reality, drug addic- he/she can “write” (the Baker just this week the room, so to speak, is the grow the appeal of Mas- it needs real policies that tion is a complex disease, alphabet). showed signs he wants to unappealing brand of the sachusetts Republicanism. provide jobs and lessen the and quitting takes more yoke the party to the middle, national GOP. Many voters But it isn't impossible, for alienation of new immi- than good intentions SHARON BALIAN showing support for moder- - even college students and there are several themes grants, many of whom are or a strong will. In fact, Milford ate state GOP Chair Kristen young professionals - may that o" er inroads with the entrepreneurs. Hughes. It looks like Baker be captivated by the call average voter. And with Growth, innovation, wants the party to follow for personal responsibility, Baker in o! ce, the Repub- opportunity, and new First Amendment his playbook and stand up limited government and licans have a fi rst-rate blood from around the and be counted among the economic opportunity. But thinker to articulate broadly world: They all are exciting Congress shall make no law respecting an establish- throng of Democrats. how do they reconcile them- appealing messages. trends in Massachusetts ment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; There's much at stake, selves to values they may One obvious opportunity that the GOP needs to fully or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of people peaceably to assemble, and to peti- and not just for the local fi nd unenlightened at best is to advance the idea that embrace if it doesn't want tion the Government for a redress of grievances. GOP. A stronger Republican on issues like gay marriage, Republicans are the true to be left behind. E4 THE DAILY NEWS Sunday, November 16, 2014

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OUR VIEW A good place for business ome of Massachusetts’ in the nation. The state ranks toughest critics are its 16th in growth prospects, a Sown leaders, especially score based on forecasts for in the Republican Party and the next fi ve years. in the state Legislature. For There are two areas where LOCAL VIEW decades, they’ve been telling Massachusetts earned the world that Massachu- failing grades. The state setts is a terrible place to do came in 33rd in regulatory business, doing incalculable climate, covering licensing damage to the state’s reputa- regulations, health coverage Can Congress learn to behave? tion and its economy. mandates, union protec- fter two years of at the national level. It rather than downtrodden A more realistic appraisal tions and other business bitter partisanship now holds the greatest adversaries, The election’s of our state comes from regulations. Governor-elect and unyielding congressional majority over. It’s time to end the those outside it, especially Charlie Baker has promised A gridlock, a lame duck since the end of World campaign. To follow the those who aren’t looking for to make reducing unjustifi ed Congress dominated by War II. That’s why many sorry examples of Demo- political advantage within the regulations a priority, and Democrats in the Senate Republicans are privately cratic bullying simply state or special favors from its while there are some rules is being tempted to pass debating how to deal with codifi es bad congressional government. One such out- and mandates we wouldn’t whatever legislation it can FRANK R. MAZZAGLIA Democrats who will be behavior. side appraisal came this week change, there is certainly before the new Congress in the minority in both Following stormy pas- from Forbes magazine, in its room for improvement. is sworn in during the the House and Senate sage of the A! ordable annual rankings of the “Best The worst score is on fi rst week of January. It’s approval even though the after years of undisguised Care Act, it’s clear that States for Business.” On this business costs, where Mas- a long agenda and there nomination of Loretta animosity. no legislation will ever be Forbes list, Massachusetts sachusetts ranked 49th, just isn’t much time. Lynch as U.S. Attorney After all, it’s been a long settled law without bipar- had a respectable showing, ahead of Hawaii and 20 One of the fi rst items General will probably time since anything that tisan support. Besides that, coming in at number 13, percent above the national of business will be to be reserved for the new Republicans thought or Democrats are well aware with the top score in New average. These costs include pass a bill on or before Congress. A trade-o! wanted even mattered. of the factors that led to so England. labor, health care, taxes and December 11 funding the could even mean passing For years, Republicans many defeats and are hardly That ranking is encourag- utilities. Given our high cost government. Then there’s a federal budget. have been ignored, in a mood to repeat them. ing for all with a stake in of living and growing income the matter of funding mil- Expiring personal and belittled, and even Perhaps the most sobering the state’s economic devel- inequality, cutting labor costs itary operations against business tax breaks will demonized by Democrats. thought of all, however, opment, and is a useful would be tough. While there ISIS and accepting con- require congressional Even after Republicans is that the next election is counterweight to the carica- are opportunities to make gressional accountability extension, and fi nally, won control of the House, only two years away and a ture of a state unremittingly business taxes simpler and for a long war. given the heat generated the best they could do was number of Republican seats hostile to business. But its more fair – including the The Ebola crisis will by the porous border, a to engage in a tug of war are up for grabs. component scores are more review of industry-specifi c require additional sup- comprehensive immigra- with a Senate dominated The wisest approach for interesting and important, tax breaks that may have port, and so will funding tion law may be passed by Democrats. These Republicans is to show pointing out parts of the outlived their usefulness. the Syrian rebels. that could save the involved bitter power respect for the Democratic state’s economic strategy that But controlling health With an important president from the certain struggles ending in virtual minority even though are working – and those that care costs has been a priority Senate race still hang- backlash of sharp Repub- stalemates. Given that partisan di! erences require need attention. for years, and e! orts must ing in the balance, the lican anger. political background, compromise. It would On the positive side, continue. Utility costs have Keystone XL pipeline That’s much too there are Republicans also help if the members Forbes ranks Massachusetts long been a sore spot for Bay will emerge as a special much to expect between who can hardly wait to themselves actively engaged best in the nation for quality State businesses, and it has priority. This, after lan- November 12 and January avenge some old wounds in positive social activi- of life, a refl ection, Forbes fl ared up again with recent guishing for years without 3. However, here’s some- and even the score. ties. Personal friendships writes, of “the state’s strong electric rate increases. Baker a decision. thing to consider before Hopefully, cooler between Republicans and schools, bountiful arts and and the Legislature need to The U.S. and Iranian any of these legislative and wiser heads will Democrats in the Congress recreation opportunities, put reining in utility costs at nuclear talks may call for items surface. It’s an prevail. The true value may elicit the goodwill a healthy populous, low the top of their agenda, for congressional approval. important intangible. For of experience is more that the president has poverty and a plethora of the sake of businesses – and This Congress may also even more important than than knowing what to squandered. top-rated colleges.” Massa- consumers. attempt to broaden the the business at hand is the do. Perhaps even more Perhaps political hostility chusetts ranks third among Rankings like this often president’s authority in manner that Democrats signifi cantly, experience between Republicans and states for labor supply, which refl ect the political or policy any forthcoming trade and Republicans manage also shows us what not Democrats will continue is well-educated and steadily agenda of the authors, and treaty. to get along as these fi nal to do. A better route is to unabated, but wouldn’t it replenished by the graduates should be taken with a grain A long list of presi- days draw to a close. put country over party be better if they remem- of top universities. of salt. But it’s always useful dential nominations will The Grand Old Party and to treat Democrats ber that they are all Massachusetts comes in to see ourselves as others require congressional is on the ascendancy as fellow Americans Americans? 11th in economic climate, see us, providing perspec- which includes measures tive on where we are strong, of the growth in income, and where we should get LOCAL VIEW employment and gross state stronger. We could do much product. Forbes notes that worse than 13th place, and the Bay State has the second- much better. most venture capital money Not too late to thank veterans By Doug Grindle hillsides on dark evenings Constant patrolling did. OUR VIEW Guest Columnist against isolated outposts. for months in armored Swept under the rug is Those taken prisoner could vehicles that were not the reality of the actual ime was that America be shot in the snow if they designed for the mission. experience of veterans. cared a lot about its fell out of line. Veterans, Booby traps widespread Their reception has too Blinding the media veterans. A whole lot. upon their return, were on foot patrols. A strate- often been inadequate or he Obama administra- Press reported, none of the T But lately it hasn't showed often asked, "Where have gic muddle. Returnees even shameful. tion has not been a St. Louis television stations as much appreciation as you been? We thought you routinely ignored by most There might be a solu- Tfriend of the media - were advised that the restric- you might think. That is, got a new job out of town." people. One night in 2006 tion to all this but I don't and the latest example comes tion had been updated. not for about 60 years. No one even knew they had I interviewed a soldier on know what it is. Is it too late from Ferguson, Missouri, For its part, the St. Louis Iraq and Afghanistan gone to fi ght. patrol in Paktika Province to apologize to the Vietnam where in August a white County Police Department are not World War II. No Vietnam War: Wide- in eastern Afghanistan, and Korean War veterans police o" cer shot to death denied making any request welcoming crowds. No spread maltreatment of about 10 kilometers from whose lives were lost in 18-year-old Michael Brown, that only media be kept out grateful nation mobilized returning service-members. the border. He lamented the tens of thousands for an unarmed black man, of the airspace. But the audio in homecoming as much Treatment so bad that that his brother thought the too little recognition? Is sparking weeks of sometimes recordings of negotiations as for the sendo! . None of they were often advised to Afghan war was over and it too late to apologize to violent street protests. between police and the FAA, that for our people. Just a change out of their uni- that he was serving in Iraq the veterans of Iraq and With the eyes of the world obtained by the AP, tell a dif- few well-wishers at air- forms before leaving the - both assumptions horribly Afghanistan who heard upon the community, what ferent story. ports such as Bangor, Me., airport terminal to escape wrong. time and again from their did police do? They went to The police say this (where amazing volunteers abuse. Many of them faced These men and women own elected o" cials that the Federal Aviation Admin- conversation was taken out meet every single returning months of patrolling in returned to complete they "opposed the war but istration and got a no-fl y of context, but the context fl ight). Welcomes are spo- densely covered mountains disarray at Walter Reed supported the troops." (By zone imposed over Ferguson seems plain enough: As Fer- radic and often unnoticed. and deep paddies look- Hospital, more disarray the way, in my 10 years in for nearly two weeks under guson erupted, police didn't But then again, as ing for an elusive enemy across the Veterans Admin- the war zone I never met the pretext that reports had want the news media - and, Veterans Day rolls past, we who often killed from afar, istration and a suicide anyone over there who indicated shots fi red at a by extension, the public - to can ask: When was truly or with booby traps close rate that has remained thought that notion was police helicopter. have a bird's eye view of the the last time we met our up. The death toll among stubbornly high for years, anything other than a cop- The 37-square-mile news. Despots around the obligations to those return- helicopter aircrew alone alongside an unemploy- out of the lowest order). restriction limited fl ights to world would applaud this ing? After interviewing and numbered over 4,000. ment rate running higher No, it's not too late. If police helicopters and com- move. speaking with veterans for Gulf War I: A quick war than the national average. you see a veteran ask him mercial fl ights. The White While a grand jury is yet years this is what I heard: with a rousing return and The bright spot is a GI Bill where and when he served. House insists that the FAA's to decide the rights and Korean War: Service- quick return to obscurity. that works. Vietnam, Korea, Lebanon, restriction was prudent in wrongs of the fatal shoot- members might be gone for Lingering e! ects from Gulf The tendency on Vet- Grenada, Panama, Kuwait, the immediate aftermath of ing, the press has never been a year or two, counting time War Syndrome persisted erans Day is for us to Iraq or Afghanistan, it the reported shots and that the underlying problem in for train-up and their draft for years with little under- congratulate ourselves and doesn't matter. Ask and he the restriction was eased Ferguson. Shame on the FAA obligation. Many of them standing of what was bask in the accomplish- or she will tell you. Then within 12 to 14 hours to allow for making news gathering faced human-wave attacks a! ecting the health of thou- ments of our veterans. We say “thank you,” like you TV news helicopters over the more di" cult. as hordes of red Chi- sands of service-members. thank veterans and notice really mean it. Like we area. But, as The Associated nese advanced up frozen Iraq and Afghanistan. what a wonderful job they should have said all along. Sunday, November 16, 2014 THE DAILY NEWS E5

EDUCATION NATIONAL VIEW Schools shortchanged by Our gathering storm Obama’s overreach grade infl ation will bring an ugly response y two sons have hen Abraham been indoctri- Lincoln fi rst nated by their M presented a MICHAEL GERSON well-meaning public W version of the Emancipa- schools to believe that tion Proclamation to his college is a punish- Cabinet, Secretary of State march - which could not ingly di" cult pursuit of William Seward warned even attract the support knowledge. Around the ESTHER J. CEPEDA that issuing it after a of moderate Republicans dinner table, however, defeat would look desper- such as Sen. Susan Collins they get the skinny from ate. Better to wait "until - helped turn health care their parents: "It all infl ation should become the eagle of victory takes into a divisive, highly ideo- depends on your major." an immediate priority. his fl ight" and then "hang logical debate. No elected A business degree with The source of the your proclamation about Republican had a political a concentration in a dis- problem, according to his neck." Lincoln post- or emotional investment cipline such as economics this analysis, is that stu- poned action until after in the legislative outcome. or fi nance can be a bear dents in teacher training the Union victory (such as And the advocates of a to attain. Yet in the fi eld programs are more often it was) at Antietam. conservative approach to of education, you're likely and more likely than Our president today health care reform were to spend a lot of time in students in other majors apparently regards an placed on the defensive. trivial pursuits, even in to be given assignments executive order on immi- Supporting an alternative grad school. that cover a broad scope who advocate for compre- suicidal. Attempting to gration - which might to Obamacare (at least Throughout the 10 of content. Worse, these hensive reform would be shut down the government grant legal status to mil- for a time) was viewed by or so courses required assignments tend not to (further) marginalized and has been disastrously lions of undocumented some conservative activists for my graduate-level be knowledge- or skill- discredited. tried before. Legal chal- adults - in the same as ideological softness. teacher training pro- based, and often put an Some progressive com- lenges will be attempted. historical category. But he The aggressive use of gram, there were tedious outsized emphasis on mentators have argued But the real problem for seems intent on hanging executive orders to limit sessions of "mini-les- students' opinions. that since Republicans are Republicans is that they his proclamation about greenhouse gas emissions sons" and "group work," It trickles down. hopeless on these issues lost the presidency in 2012 the neck of an electoral (also promised by the which usually required Anyone who has anyway, they might as - an o" ce with consider- defeat - more a lame duck Obama administration) only talking about our checked out a child's well be steamrolled. This able powers even after than an eagle. And there would probably reinforce feelings. homework or projects implies a profound disdain a midterm presidential would be serious political similar attitudes. Con- Instead of endless in the last few years for democratic proce- repudiation. And what- and social consequences to fronting climate change chapters of required has seen a shift from dures. It also involves a ever strategy Republicans such a strategy. - which drew bipartisan reading, lengthy research research, content test- belief that Republican select should be designed As someone who sup- attention a decade ago papers and nail-biter ing and skill acquisition legislators will never be to increase their chances ports the goal of providing - would be confi rmed exams, there was a lot to subjective, opinion or part of a broadly accepted of securing the presidency legal status and a realistic in the minds of many of coloring, cutting and feeling-based interpre- legislative outcome on in 2016, instead of merely path to citizenship for law- Republicans as a radi- pasting, watching syrupy tive "work." For instance, immigration; that they venting understand- abiding undocumented cal, progressive project. videos about how to be if a student in a history will never join a legitimate able but self-destructive workers - as part of Conservatives concerned culturally adept, and class was learning about and respected demo- outrage. comprehensive immigra- about the issue would be refl ecting about, yes, our people who sheltered cratic consensus. And just After a series of national tion reform - I sympathize (further) marginalized and feelings. Jews in their homes because Obama could elections that empowered with President Obama's discredited. Do not misunderstand during the Holocaust, the not achieve this - with an two parties on an ideo- frustration. Republicans An ambitious executive the circumstances: I was student might be asked o! -putting manner and logical collision course, in Congress could have, order by Obama on immi- not studying to become a to write fi ve paragraphs one of the weakest legisla- Americans are about to should have, agreed to gration would result in an kindergarten teacher. My about a time he or she tive operations of modern be treated to a magnifi ed comprehensive legislation even greater ideological training was in secondary had to keep a secret. times - does not mean it is version of everything they in 2007 when President storm. Nearly all Republi- education with concen- Compare this to unachievable. hate: overreach, back- George W. Bush pushed cans would have deep legal trations in special and assignments that This is not the Civil War. lash, deadlock, threats for it, and in 2013 when and procedural objections. exceptional education focus on a clearly cir- Obama's recourse to an and lasting bitterness. the Senate approved it. At Many would be convinced and English-language cumscribed slice of executive order would be It is like a Shakespear- some point, the GOP must that Obama is playing a learners - students knowledge or skill-based a form of confession that ian drama - without the put this issue behind it ruthless form of politics requiring specialized material - such as writing he could not make the interesting characters and and begin serious outreach with serious constitutional knowledge and skills - an essay comprised of a legislative process work on quality dialogue. Everyone to Latinos. matters. Some, surely and and a sub-focus in math. 10-point timeline of fac- one of the most important seems driven by their own But politics (in a democ- sadly, would be driven into Much research has tors leading up to World policy matters facing our angels and demons toward racy at least) is not only discrediting fi ts of anti- shown that the standards War II - and require nation. But another presi- predictable tragedy. Some- about outcomes but about immigrant rage. (If this to get into a university teachers to determine dent might. thing senseless this way methods. And the manner reaction fi gures anywhere education program are, whether the content is If Obama takes this comes. in which a great policy in Obama's calculation as generally, quite low. Yet correct or incorrect and path, congressional matter is resolved can a political upside, it would the issue is regularly then address specifi c Republicans will have leave it unresolved. The be a particularly sicken- ignored by policymak- areas of defi ciencies in fl awed and limited Michael Gerson's email passage of the A! ordable ing form of cynicism.) ers. That's why we're still the acquired knowledge options. Talk of impeach- address is michaelger- Care Act on a party-line And those conservatives asking why our schools of the students. ment would be politically [email protected]. are failing and our stu- Yet how could tax- dents can't read, write or payers ever expect do simple math. their public schools to Now, from the pump out students with NATIONAL VIEW National Council on quantifi able knowl- Teacher Quality, comes edge when the teachers another report highlight- themselves are trained to ing the ease with which get top grades through All good news on the energy front mediocre students can fl u! y assignments and skate through teacher- "assessments" that don't By Mark Zandi The Saudis might also is again a global energy Holding back progress education programs with actually test knowledge Guest Columnist be trying to pressure powerhouse. Shale-oil here is a lack of appropri- A grades. or skill acquisition? Russia to curb its aggres- and natural-gas produc- ate fueling stations. But Among the report's The answer is obvious: eemingly overnight, sion in Ukraine. A more tion are booming, helping smart, enterprising people fi ndings: Make teacher education gasoline prices have far-fetched theory is that make the nation energy are working on this prob- Of the more than more rigorous by upping S plunged. Regular Saudi Arabia wants to independent. lem, and likely to solve it. 500 higher education admission criteria, unleaded is approaching short-circuit the U.S. Oil imports are at Energy independence institutions that turn identifying the standards $3 per gallon at my local fracking boom by making 20-year lows and fall- may also mean we can out nearly half of the that can defi ne teacher Wawa. That's the lowest it unprofi table. ing quickly. Most of what ask other nations to share new teachers annually, excellence - like, say, a price since just after the More likely the Saudis we import comes from the cost of keeping global 58 percent exhibit lower higher minimum number recession ended. want to reestablish disci- Canada. So much natural energy supplies fl owing. grading standards for of hours in the subject an Since nothing makes pline in OPEC. The cartel gas is being produced that A large share of the U.S. teacher candidates than instructor is certifi ed to American consumers hap- has e! ectively fractured; we are trying to export it. defense budget now goes for students in other teach - and more rigor- pier than lower gasoline most of its member states, Doing so will be di" cult, to securing those supplies. majors on the same ous coursework, plus prices, they should be especially those run by however. The infra- It stands to reason that campus. knowledge and skills cheering now. The Ameri- despots, are cheating on structure needed to ship countries such as China, There is a "strong assessments. can energy story is entirely their production quotas. natural gas overseas is India, and Japan, which link between high grades These remedies are good news. Bringing OPEC into line expensive, and laws writ- also rely on this global and a lack of rigorous not rocket science. Yet Pulling gasoline lower won't be easy, however, ten when there were lines network, should pay more coursework, with the teacher training remains is a surprisingly sharp and at best will take time. at gas stations still restrict to safeguard it. primary cause being the big blind spot in any decline in global oil prices. Oil prices are thus likely to energy exports. To be sure, we can't assignments that fail to discussion about why Just a couple of months remain low for the foresee- U.S. natural-gas prices take our energy future develop the critical skills students are graduating ago, a barrel of oil traded able future. are as low as anywhere for granted. Just one and knowledge every from high school woe- for well over $100 on This is a boon to U.S. in the world. Because environmental calamity new teacher needs." fully underprepared for global markets. Today, the consumers. Every time natural gas fuels a grow- _ an oil-laden train being The authors of "Train- just about everything. price is closer to $80. the price of a gallon drops ing share of the nation's derailed, fracking mistakes ing Our Future Teachers: But if we don't take o! Slower economic growth by a penny, consumers electric power plants, the polluting large swaths Easy A's and What's our blinders to this issue, in Europe, China, and save $1.25 billion over the cost of electricity is also of groundwater, or even Behind Them" o! er there will be very few elsewhere has crimped following year. Assuming low. Americans pay about fracking-related earth any number of startling American rocket scien- global demand for oil. prices stabilize near $3 half as much for natural tremors _ could muck statistics about grade tists to speak of in the More importantly, how- per gallon, consumers will gas and electricity as do things up badly. infl ation - which has not-so-distant future. ever, global supply is save $62.5 billion in 2015 the Chinese, and about We also need to rethink been well-documented surging. American produc- - as much as Americans one-fourth as much as how we tax energy pro- for years - in the teaching Esther Cepeda's email tion is booming, making spent on movies, sport- consumers in Japan. ducers. Their e! ective profession. address is estherj- the United States once ing events, and other live The prospect of cheaper tax rate, after various tax But even though [email protected]. again the world's largest entertainment this year. energy is attracting global breaks and loopholes, is these fi ndings require Follow her on Twitter, @ oil producer. Consumers are already manufacturing back to among the lowest of any our attention, fi xing estherjcepeda. Production is also up feeling much better. Confi - the United States. This industry. This makes little the cause of this grade in some war-torn coun- dence gauges have surged is especially true for the sense given the potential tries such as Libya and in recent weeks to levels petrochemical and plastics environmental costs of oil Iraq. Saudi Arabia, which last seen before the Great industries that use energy and gas production. has historically curtailed Recession. With unem- intensively, but energy is These caveats aside, Get in on the Conversation output when global prices ployment falling quickly, important for almost all the U.S. energy outlook slumped, is pumping lots debt burdens about as manufacturing activities. is bright. Given how of oil, fueling much specu- light as they have been Low natural-gas prices important energy is to Online: metrowestdailynews.com/opinion lation about the Saudi in decades, and the stock will provide an even bigger our economy, so too is the or milforddailynews.com/opinion leaders' motives. market close to record kick to the U.S. economy economic outlook. Rumors suggest they highs, everything is lining when we begin to use nat- might be trying to hurt the up for a robust Christmas ural gas for transportation, Blog: blogs.wickedlocal.com/holmesandco Muslim-extremist group buying season. particularly for trucking. Mark Zandi is chief econo- ISIS, which is selling oil The good energy news Natural gas-powered mist of Moody's Analytics. Twitter: @HolmesAndCo to fi nance its rampage isn't just about lower trucks are common in He wrote this for The across the Middle East. prices, moreover. America other parts of the world. Philadelphia Inquirer. E8 THE DAILY NEWS Sunday, November 16, 2014

HUMOR NATIONAL VIEW Republicans vow to approve ‘The talk,’ the Socratic way se the Socratic out by the Eugenics move- Keystone pipeline, fi ght E.P.A., method when ment around the turn of the having the last century. The collection, take credit for bin Laden killing “Ubirds-and-bees chat with titled “Safe Counsel,” was your child,” advised an reproduced many times he new Republican Future,” noted that the role earnest article recently in a short period of time Congress appears of humans in global warm- published in a reputable (thereby ironically under- T headed for a clash ing is still under dispute magazine. “Ask your child GINA BARRECA mining the basis of the with the White House and and that the raid on Mr. bin ‘When do you think is a Eugenic philosophy), and history over two ambitious Laden’s compound three good time to have sex?’” it included a description of Environmental Protection and a half years ago is so I paused after I read this being defi ned as such. a mamma bird protecting Agency regulations and cloaked in secrecy that it is line. But nobody would her eggs and a father fi gure the details of an early- PHILIP MADDOCKS di" cult to say defi nitively I grew up in a cynical have used it, or any other as a busy bee with pollen morning raid in Pakistan whether Republicans took old-time Brooklyn house- method, to discuss the sticking to his hairy legs as in 2011 that left Osama part in the covert assault or hold. The Socratic method, birds-and-bees. he disseminates himself bin Laden dead. the E.P.A., Keystone, and not. now that I think about First of all, talking about against fl owers. Sen. Mitch McConnell, bin Laden,” Mr. McConnell “We’ve had two members it, was often employed in sex was not something If the Eugenics people the next majority leader, promised. of that Seal Team 6 come our family. The Socratic anybody did. wanted to keep folks out has already vowed to fi ght The GOP’s new major- forward – one with a book, method was, I believe, Second of all, if you were of the reproduction busi- the rules, which could curb ity in the Senate, he said, the other on the lecture instinctively passed down going to talk about sex, ness, that description alone planet-warming carbon increases their leverage circuit – claiming to have through our Sicilian family, which nobody did, you would do it. pollution but ultimately in pushing Mr. Obama to fi red the bullet that killed although it was slightly would never use the phrase Except that misinforma- shut down coal-fi red approve the pipeline and bin Laden,” he said. “And altered from the origi- “the birds-and-bees.” What tion about sex is just about power plants in his native to accept the Republicans’ while those versions are still nal Greek give-and-take are you, a gardener? as pernicious as no infor- Kentucky. Mr. McConnell version of the killing of under dispute, what is not method of discourse. Thirdly, if you did ask one mation about sex. Both are and other Republicans Mr. bin Laden, although it in question is that nowhere It was used not as a way of your o! spring “When worse than having lots of are also stepping up their is still unclear if the presi- in either account does it say to illuminate or encour- do you think is a good time information about sex. The demands that the presi- dent will do so. Republicans weren’t there.” age discussion, however, to have sex?” his answer wised-up guys and girls dent approve construction The White House is Mr. Inhofe, the presumed but instead as a way to would probably be “Usually never got into “trouble” of the Keystone XL pipe- vowing to fi ght back. “We new chairman of the Senate drive home the sever- after the second cocktail” because they knew what line to carry petroleum know that there will be Environment and Public ity of a person’s error so because you’d be having they were doing. from Canadian oil sands attempts to impede or Works Committee, said he they themselves could this conversation with your The poor souls whose to refi neries on the Gulf scale back our actions,” planned to push this point discover the depth of their kid when he was 27, after families were too cowardly Coast and their claims to John D. Podesta, the during investigations into transgression. he’d been married for six or whose schools were too having shot Mr. bin Laden, senior White House coun- the E.P.A. For example, you’d say years and had four children constrained to teach them the mastermind of the selor, said in a statement Both Mr. Inhofe and Mr. to your sister, who’d just of his own. anything about sex were the most devastating attack on on Monday. But he added, McConnell seemed uncon- set the table and put the But haven’t times ones most truly at risk. American soil in modern “We’re confi dent we can cerned that Republicans food out for dinner, “Try changed? In 2014, does It was my mother who times, during the daring prevail.” do not have the votes to this soup.” You’d insist and advice about having a told me about how chil- operation in Pakistan in But Republicans, who repeal the E.P.A. regula- she’d decline. Then you straightforward talk with dren are conceived and 2011. have succeeded in the last tions or were described by would say it again and your kids about sex still how bodies worked. I’ve “With last week’s elec- two Congressional elec- the former Seal Team 6 again, insisting that she need to peek out coyly from always been grateful to her, tions, we have a rare tions by locking up the commander as not having try the soup. Finally, she’d behind a modesty curtain especially since nobody else opportunity to rewrite support of huge political played a “singular role” in impatiently agree and ask, hung between John James in our family would have history and that’s what donors while managing to the mission to get Mr. bin “Where’s the spoon?” and Audubon (artist and orni- approved of her honesty. we plan to do,” said Mr. steal the mantle of every- Laden. you’d go “AHA!” in tri- thologist) and Burt Shavitz When is a good time to McConnell, who had a man populism from the “We’re going to get this umph because that was the (who owned Burt’s Bees have sex? After you both Belgian Malinois at his Democrats, see no reason country headed back in the point you were making the before Clorox bought the understand what kind of side and was outfi tted in why they won’t be able to right direction and we are whole time. There was no company for $925 million a decision you’re making Desert Digital Camoufl age counter the environmen- going to work tirelessly to spoon. She had neglected few years back)? and fully accept the wear and night-vision tal expertise of politically advance Republican ideas to give you appropriate I attempted to pinpoint consequences. goggles and carrying a hapless scientists and the just like these to do it,” Mr. cutlery. the fi rst use of the phrase And that’s the right silenced Heckler & Koch word of an unpopular McConnell said. The fact that you could “birds-and-bees” as a answer at any age. MP7 at the unusual late- president. House Speaker John reach the drawer where euphemism for sex even night appearance in the “We have to get back to Boehner indicated there the cutlery was kept and before I fi nished reading Gina Barreca is an English East Room of the White a common sense approach may be a chance for a grand get yourself your own the article. There are lots of professor at the University House. to the environment and bargain if Mr. Obama is lousy spoon without theories: Some say it was a of Connecticut, a feminist He rejected the notion foreign policy that doesn’t willing to negotiate. actually rising from your Cavalier poet; others claim scholar who has written that it was too late and cripple the energy busi- “Now it’s the president’s chair was not the point. it was Coleridge. eight books, and a col- too politically and histori- ness and give comfort to turn to compromise,” said She didn’t set the table The most convincing umnist for the Hartford cally perilous to attempt our enemies abroad,” said Mr. Boehner, whose House right. No spoon. She had argument is that the phrase Courant. She can be reached to overturn Mr. Obama’s Sen. James M. Inhofe of has voted 54 times since to learn. It was Socratic was made widely popular through www.ginabar- actions on the environ- Oklahoma, a prominent 2011 to undo, revamp or method in action without through a publication put reca.com. ment and undermine his skeptic of climate change tweak Mr. Obama’s signa- role in getting Mr. bin and of the White House ture accomplishment, the Laden. version of how Mr. bin A! ordable Care Act. Earthweek: A Diary of the Planet By Steve Newman “What the voters want is Laden was killed. “If he isn’t careful,” said new ideas and that’s what Mr. Inhofe, the author the House speaker, “he they are going to hear of “The Greatest Hoax: may fi nd Republicans from the new Republican How the Global Warming taking credit for Obam- majority – beginning with Conspiracy Threatens Your acare, too.” 2.2 4.8 2.9 4.9 4.9 HUMOR 3.8 4.5

NFL hears London calling +108° 5.8 Mandora, he National Foot- London. Not the coaches, W. Australia ball League keeps who hate anything out of T threatening to put the team’s normal routine. a team in London. As in Not the players, who are London, England. As in generally unaware of what -58° Merry Olde England. As in city they are in and would Vostok, home of William Shake- be shocked to suddenly Week Ending November 14, 2014 Antarctica speare, Charles Dickens LEE OSTAZEWSKI realize the team bus is driv- and Benny Hill. ing on the wrong side of the Oil Sands Tragedy Nocturnal Adaptation Malodorous Moscow In other words, they road. Canada’s oil sands indus- Days in northern Kenya The entire Russian capital think it would be a great the Cowboys of Dallas, That would get their try is under fire for the have become so hot under became enveloped in the idea to stick a team on the Texas, USA, and our own cardio up. deaths of 122 waterfowl climate change that some foul smell of sulfur, hydro- other side of the Atlantic. London Blokes. Here’s the But most everyone that had landed in three residents have turned noc- gen sulfide and oil prod- companies’ tailings ponds, where turnal to escape the heat. Nightfall has ucts, prompting at least one resident to A place where their foot- fi rst boot by the Blokes understands how pro- waste from oil extraction is dumped. become something to celebrate in ask if the gates of hell had opened up ball is really our soccer. and it bounces past the fessional sports teams Syncrude said many of the birds that Atheley and other villages, where af- beneath Moscow. A thick fog accom- Which poses the fi rst fl ames and out of the end operate these days. If a landed at its Mildred Lake site in east- ternoon readings in excess of 104 de- panied the stink, which seeped into problem: What are the zone. I believe that means team feels it deserves mil- central Alberta had to be euthanized, grees Fahrenheit became common for apartments, offices, stores and even British supposed to call we scored. Jolly good lions of taxpayer dollars and cited extreme fog as a leading fac- the first time this year. The Thomson the underground metro. Officials in the sport? job, Blokes. No, wait. I’m for improvements, it will tor in the tragedy. It claims its water- Reuters Foundation reports this has the emergencies ministry said faulty They already have being told it means the throw a tantrum to get it. fowl deterrence system was operating made farming, going to school and air filters at a refinery in southeastern something called football. Cowboys get the ball at the For instance, a common at the time. That company was earlier other daily activities a struggle. Vil- Moscow were responsible for the They could simply call it 20-meter line. What? We strategy to force communi- fined $3 million for the deaths of more lagers now take refuge in circular huts, stench. But state-controlled Gazprom, American football, but are going to a commercial? ties to pay for infrastructure than 1,600 ducks that landed on one of waiting for sunset before venturing which operates the refinery, denied the that seems too obvious. Already? It’s not halftime.” or stadium upgrades the its tailings ponds in 2008. Regulators outside. Students attend classes be- claim. Air in southwestern Moscow say oil sands operators are required to tween 6 p.m. and 9 p.m., then return at briefly contained 2.5 times the maxi- Besides, it’s not as if we In any case, Carrie team could a! ord is to operate bird deterrents, like noise can- dawn for an additional two-hour ses- mum permissible levels of styrene, refer to soccer as “foreign Underwood will need to threaten to move the team nons, to scare wildlife from toxic ar- sion. New solar lighting technology, a toxic and mutation-causing chemical football.” Although, come change the song. to another city. eas. Oil sands mining creates a slurry which charges up during the broiling used for polymer production, accord- to think of it, maybe we “Waitin’ all day/evening With London in the mix, of toxic substances that include bitu- daylight hours, has allowed the remote ing to city-run watchdog MosEcoMon- should. I like the sound for Sunday Night/early team owners have a peren- men, toluene, heavy metals and other villages to adapt to nocturnal life. itoring. of it. Monday Morning for foot- nial go-to threat to use. chemicals harmful or fatal to birds. And don’t write in sug- ball/knickerchuckles on Let’s say the Rams owners Mike Hudema of Greenpeace Canada Lava Destruction Sonar Jamming gesting we should start NBC/BBC.” are not feeling the love in says the deterrence systems just aren’t The creeping lava flow from Researchers studying the calling soccer “world foot- If the NFL in England St. Louis, which would enough. “The only way to keep birds Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano sonic connection between ball.” Hey, America is part really wanted to confuse be strange since St. Louis and animals safe in, really, what is a claimed its first home, ignit- bats and their insect prey of the world too, you know. matters about the name – has the nicest fans in the toxic brew of chemicals is to get these ing the structure as its resi- found that at least one spe- tailings ponds off the Alberta land- It is not our football. and from watching British world. One of their popu- dents watched nearby. The home in cies of the flying mammals can use its scape,” Hudema told the industry Pahoa was evacuated long before a sonar echolocation to confuse other Instead of calling it “for- television shows all my lar cheers during a game news service Oilprice. finger of lava from the main flow ar- bats targeting the same meal. A Uni- eign football” Americans life it seems they enjoy is, “Good try, guys.” rived. The leading edge of the lava, versity of Maryland scientist studying went ahead and coined an confusing matters - they The St. Louis owners Groundwater Warming which can reach temperatures of more how a particular moth is able to jam entirely new name for the should simply refer to our could threaten to move the Climate change over the past than 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit, later the sonar of big brown bats by making sport: soccer. The name American-brand football team to Phoenix. Oh, wait, 40 years has raised the tem- pushed through a fence surrounding ultrasonic clicks when being hunted caught on quicker than the as soccer. that already happened perature of water in the the community’s waste and recycling also found that other bats make sonar- sport itself. I said that the NFL is once. They could threaten ground from the surface center. A storage shed and a cattle- jamming sounds. In follow-up re- So maybe in England threatening to move a to move the Rams back to down to about 200 feet, according to a feeding shelter have also burned. search, William Conner of Wake For- they already have a new team to London. There are Los Angeles (Typical Los new long-term study of groundwater est recorded Mexican free-tailed bats name in mind for our foot- no actual plans. It might Angeles response: “The flows in Western Europe. Measure- Earthquakes generating high-frequency interfer- ball. Perhaps passerball only be an idle threat. I am Rams left L.A.? When?”) ments taken around the German cities A sharp quake caused mi- ence to gain the upper hand in hunting. or knickerchuckles, some not sure how sincere they London would be a of Cologne and Karlsruhe during that nor damage near the epi- “They use it at the moment of truth, period reveal the groundwater warmed when the hunter is zeroing in on its idiotic name the same way truly are. For starters, who much more e! ective center in southern Kansas. significantly, following the warming It was widely felt. prey,” Conner says. He adds that the they call a truck a lorry. in the NFL really wants threat, mostly because pattern of the local and regional cli- • Earth movements were also felt bats get into “amazing aerial dog- “The pitch is green, the this? it will always be avail- mate. “Global warming is reflected in Britain’s Channel Islands, south- fights” where “one will jam the other hooligans have set fi re Not the fans, who are able. And if the NFL ever directly in the groundwater, albeit eastern Philippines, Tokyo, Hawaii’s and the other will jam back.” to the end zone, we are told by talk radio to dread did put a team there, I damped and with a certain time lag,” Kona Coast, Greece’s Gulf of Corinth, Distributed by: Universal Uclick ready for a great match of the long fl ight and strange could get used to calling it said Peter Bayer, senior assistant at northern Chile and the San Francisco www.earthweek.com knikerchuckles between water when teams play in knickerchuckles. ETH Zurich’s Geological Institute. Bay Area. © MMXIV Earth Environment Service Sunday, December 14, 2014 THE DAILY NEWS E1

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LOCAL VIEW NATIONAL VIEW Is now the time to Answering evil with evil disarm the police? Washinton’s By Clark Moeller morally bankrupt Guest Columnist debate over torture ver 300 million he “debate” over guns are in pri- torture is almost O vate ownership in T as grotesque as the USA, more per capita torture itself. There can than any other nation. be no legitimate debate Americans are shooting about the intentional each other at rates that infl iction of pain upon are 3 to10 times greater captive and defenseless than do citizens in other human beings. The tor- democracies similar to turers and their enablers ours, but which have may deny it, but they better gun-control laws. know - and knew from the Over 30,000 American EDITORIAL: Nearly four beginning - that what they are killed in gun-related years ago, Eurie Stamps homicides annually and Sr., above, was killed during did was obscenely wrong. a police raid on his Fram- We relied on legal an estimated 70,000 ingham home. What his advice, the torturers more are wounded. death says about the need say. We were just follow- These are legacies of for reform. 4E ing orders. We believed the our Congress and state ROB MELTZER: Today's ends justifi ed the means. legislatures. police are better trained It is nauseating to hear Given this mayhem, and more professional than such pathetic excuses police o" cers should be ever in history; the problem from those who, in the worried about their own is in the dangerous com- name of the United States, lives 24/7. In the last 10 munities where they patrol. years, 548 police were 3E sanctioned or committed GEORGE WILL: A larger acts that long have been shot dead and many context for clashes recognized as war crimes. more were wounded. between police and citizens According to the Senate Although white males is the "overcriminalization" Intelligence Committee own most of the guns, of American life. 2E. report on the treatment police shoot black 19 to of detainees after the 9/11 24-yearolds at a rate that attacks, members of a CIA is 21 times higher than Department responded interrogation team were white men of the same with army-like, combat “profoundly a! ected ... age although all blacks units carrying assault some to the point of tears are only 12 percent of weapons and driving and choking up” at the our nation’s population. an armored vehicle brutal treatment in 2002 On Aug. 9, Michael designed for war in Iraq. of an important al-Qaeda Brown Jr., a black Sitting on top was a detainee named Abu 18-year-old, was shot sharp shooter with his Zubaida. dead by Police O" cer rifl e pointed at the citi- Captured in Pakistan Wilson in Ferguson, Mo. zens. The message was and whisked to a secret A grand jury did not clear: unarmed citizens facility in Thailand, indict O" cer Wilson. exercising their free Zubaida was initially Brown’s shooting was speech rights peacefully cooperative, willingly justifi ed as consistent on their streets were providing answers under with “standard police the enemy. These pro- normal, non-coercive protocol.” Do “standard testers were outraged. Barbed wire surrounds detention centers at Camp Delta in Guantanamo Bay, police protocols” explain questioning. But the CIA Cuba. WASHINGTON POST FILE PHOTO BY BILL O’LEARY As the Ferguson police abruptly halted his inter- why black young men are increased their threaten- rogation, placed him in prisoners were tortured investigators found water- killed by police 21 times ing display, some citizen isolation for 47 days and with what the administra- boarding equipment at a more often than whites protesters escalated their then began a regime of tion of George W. Bush site where supposedly no of the same age? outrage by vandalizing astonishing and gratu- and Dick Cheney called such torture took place. In reaction to that lack stores. itous cruelty. “enhanced interrogation We know of two men of indictment in Fergu- On Nov. 22, New York Torturers slammed him techniques” - a chilling bit who were tortured to son, citizens protested in City Police O" cer Peter against walls, confi ned of Orwellian newspeak. death. One of them, Gul the streets. him in co" n-size boxes EUGENE ROBINSON They were kept awake Rahman, was held at a The Ferguson Police SEE MOELLER, E2 for a total of nearly 300 for up to 180 hours, often facility in Afghanistan hours and subjected him standing, sometimes in that the Senate report NATIONAL VIEW to 83 sessions of water- rising through his open, “stress” positions designed refers to as COBALT, boarding, which simulates full mouth.” to induce pain. Their described in a CIA memo drowning - a practice for In all, 119 detainees arms were shackled above as a “dungeon.” Rahman which Japanese war crim- were held in the CIA’s their heads. They were was put in a dank, frigid inals were tried, convicted archipelago of secret stripped naked and placed cell wearing only a shirt and harshly punished in ice baths. At least fi ve Lost in video prisons, according to the -- no pants or under- following World War II. report; at least 26 of them prisoners were subjected wear - and chained so After one waterboarding were wrongfully detained to “rectal rehydra- that he had to sit or lie assault, according to the and never should have tion” or “rectal feeding.” on a bare concrete fl oor. Senate report, Zubaida been arrested in the fi rst While the CIA says only He was found dead the game land was “completely unre- place. three detainees were next morning, apparently sponsive, with bubbles The report says 39 waterboarded, Senate SEE ROBINSON, E2 To game-crazed kids, reality is LOCAL VIEW ‘mundane’

ast week, my eighth-grader ESTHER J. CEPEDA A pardon for Mark Wahlberg? L engaged in World War I-style trench war- fare. It involved students take over the skills of The state shouldn’t in his classroom arrayed focus and e! ort, or as levy eternal in ranks and a great the wife of a high-school many wadded paper teacher who has seen punishment for balls. My school-hating smartphones go from teens’ crimes son called it his best class being banned for their ever. distraction quotient to In his mind, it’s just too e’s not Marky being allowed anywhere, bad that every day can’t Mark anymore, anytime - to the point involve something as fun. let alone the that even the teachers H He’s like far too many text during class. young jerk who tore up kids today who believe the streets of Dorchester My concerned observa- school is boooring. A 25 years ago. Now Mark tion is from the viewpoint slog through snatches of Wahlberg is an A-list Hol- of a mom who never books, subjects and skills lywood star, a producer, allowed broadcast or is broken only by breaks a millionaire, an entre- cable TV to be watched in which friends can be preneur. Now he wants at home (VHS tapes and visited and texts sent. a pardon for the racist DVDs had a beginning It is a daylong interrup- crimes he committed and end, and were under tion to iPhones, YouTube, back in the day. I think he my strict control) but the Xbox, Netfl ix binge- should get one. eventually succumbed to watching and social So should Je! Snyder. begging and bargaining media. He’s no movie star. All Mark Wahlberg, who is seeking a pardon for crimes committed when he was 16, at with good behavior to I say this not as an he wants to do is teach the premiere of his latest movie last month. AP PHOTO BY CHRIS PIZZELLO become the very reluctant ex-teacher who has in a public school, but he owner of an Xbox. watched the gamifi cation got caught selling some son-in-law. But with a back centuries. But in of knowledge-building SEE CEPEDA, E2 marijuana back when he criminal record, he can’t modern politics, forgive- was in high school 20 get a gun permit. ness holds no currency. years ago, and he needs a These men are among Why risk being called soft MORE OPINIONS INSIDE pardon before he can be 70 or so who have applied on crime? hired. for pardons from Gov. Politicians aren’t the GOVERNOR'S VIEW: Gov. Deval Patrick refl ects on what Give Guy James Corac- Deval Patrick before he only ones reluctant to has been achieved in the last eight years. 3E cio a pardon, too. It’s been RICK HOLMES leaves o" ce. If he issues forgive. Several pundits LOCAL VIEW: Glenn Ickler and "Uncle Fud" consider more than 40 years since one, it will be his fi rst. have argued against clear- candidates in Congress in need of brain transplants. 4E NATIONAL VIEW: Harold Meyerson on the hardships the night some kids he His predecessor, Mitt ing Wahlberg’s record, Westford man wants now "just-in-time" scheduling impose on employees. 5E was driving around with Romney, didn’t issue any turned o! by the air of HUMOR: Lee Ostaszewski has already heard too much stole a door o! of a car, is to be able to share his pardons either. entitlement they sense Christmas music. 8E and Coraccio took the rap lifelong target-shooting The tradition of rulers EARTHWEEK: Environmental news from around the along with them. All the hobby with his son and forgiving past crimes goes SEE HOLMES, E2 world. 8E E2 THE DAILY NEWS Sunday, December 14, 2014 CEPEDA NATIONAL VIEW From Page E1

Four years later, I rue the Christmas that I con- The plague of overcriminalization vinced myself that with the right balance, my sons y history’s fre- committed a crime for Carter continues: “It’s In 2012, one of every 108 could enjoy their video quently brutal which they could be unlikely that the New adults was behind bars, games but maintain a B dialectic, the good imprisoned. In his 2008 York Legislature, in creat- many in federal prisons realistic vision of regular that we call progress book, “ Overcriminaliza- ing the crime of selling containing about 40 life - as I did when I was often comes spasmodi- tion: The Limits of the untaxed cigarettes, imag- percent more inmates their age. cally, in lurches propelled Criminal Law,” Husak ined that anyone would than they were designed But no. They’ve joined by tragedies caused by says that more than half die for violating it. But a to hold. their contemporaries in callousness, folly or GEORGE WILL of the 3,000 federal wise legislator would give Most of today’s 2.2 believing that IRL (“in ignorance. With the grand crimes - itself a dismaying the matter some thought million prisoners will real life”) the day-to-day jury’s as yet inexplicable number - are found not before creating a crime. be coming back to their grind is tedious and - as and probably inexcusable diminution of restraint in the Federal Criminal O! cials who fail to take neighborhoods and few my 18-year-old nephew refusal to fi nd criminal and good comportment. Code but in numerous into account the obvious of them will have been described it to me culpability in Eric Gar- So, because minor infrac- other statutes. And, by fact that the laws they’re improved by the experi- recently, explaining why ner’s death on a Staten tions are, cumulatively, one estimate, at least so eager to pass will be ence of incarceration. he quit his fi rst real job Island sidewalk, the not minor, police should 300,000 federal regula- enforced at the point This will be true even if and moved back to the nation might have expe- not be lackadaisical about tions can be enforced by of a gun cannot fairly they did not experience comfort of his parents’ rienced su! cient a" ronts o" enses such as jumping agencies wielding crimi- be described as public the often deranging use of home - mundane. to its sense of decency. It over subway turnstiles. nal punishments. Citing servants.” prolonged solitary con- Those of us of a certain might at long last be ready Overcriminalization has Husak, professor Stephen Garner lived in part fi nement, which violates age - for whom “Pac- to stare into the abyss of become a national plague. L. Carter of the Yale Law by illegally selling single the Eighth Amendment’s Man,” “Galaga” and its criminal justice system. And when more and more School, like a hammer cigarettes untaxed by ban on “cruel and unusual “Super Mario Bros.” were It will stare back, bale- behaviors are criminal- driving a nail head fl ush New York jurisdictions. punishments” and is, to not a truly larger-than- fully. Furthermore, the ized, there are more and to a board, forcefully He lived in a progressive put things plainly, torture. life, multidimensional radiating ripples from more occasions for police, underscores the moral of state and city that, being The scandal of mass immersive and social the nation’s overdue who embody the state’s this story: ravenous for revenues incarceration is partly experience - always knew reconsideration of pres- monopoly on legitimate Society needs laws; and determined to save produced by the frivol- that school was work ent practices may reach violence, and who fully therefore it needs law smokers from themselves, ity of the political class, and, with the exception beyond matters of crime participate in humanity’s enforcement. But “over- have raised to $5.85 the which uses the multiplica- of a few special occasions, and punishment, to basic fl aws, to make mistakes. criminalization matters” combined taxes on a tion of criminal o" enses everyday life was a little truths about governance. Harvey Silverglate, a because “making an pack of cigarettes. To the as a form of moral exhi- on the dull side. Garner died at the civil liberties attorney, o" ense criminal also surprise of no sentient bitionism. This, like For many of our youth, dangerous intersection of titled his 2009 book means that the police will being, this has created a Eric Garner’s death, is a this world doesn’t exist. something wise, known as “Three Felonies a Day” go armed to enforce it.” black market in cigarettes pebble in the mountain of Until you’ve put on a “broken windows” polic- to indicate how easily we The job of the police “is that are bought in states evidence that American pair of headphones, ing, and something worse can fall afoul of America’s to carry out the legislative that tax them much less. government is increas- grabbed your control- than foolish: decades metastasizing body of will.” But today’s politi- Garner died in a state ingly characterized by an ler and strolled through of overcriminalization. criminal laws. Professor cal system takes “bizarre that has a Cigarette Strike ugly and sometimes lethal the beautifully scored, The policing applies the Douglas Husak of Rut- delight in creating new Force. irresponsibility. eye-popping landscape wisdom that when signs of gers University says that crimes” for enforce- He lived and died in a of “Skyrim” for hours and disorder, such as broken approximately 70 per- ment. And “every act of country with 5 percent of —George Will’s email hours that passed like windows, proliferate and cent of American adults enforcement includes the the world’s population but address is georgewill@ minutes, you don’t can’t persist, there is a general have, usually unwittingly, possibility of violence.” 25 percent of its prisoners. washpost.com. get it. If you’ve never been These roadblocks to life engaged in a highly These roadblocks to life after prison HOLMES don’t deter crime; they make it harder after prison don’t deter ROBINSON addictive three-dimen- From Page E1 crime; they make it harder From Page E1 sional lifelike murder for former criminals to get back on the for former criminals to get mystery such as “L.A. from the wealthy and for- straight-and-narrow. back on the straight-and- of hypothermia. The Noire” or driven shiny, tunate star. Some say that narrow. They do more other man, Manadel drop-dead gorgeous because his crimes were application for a pardon. Massachusetts doesn’t harm than good. al-Jamadi, died in the race cars across some of motivated by bigotry, he Snyder, the She! eld man have a great record. The There’s also a moral notorious Abu Ghraib the world’s most storied shouldn’t be able to walk seeking a pardon for his Legislature agreed to principle involved here. prison in Iraq after being autovistas with the feel of away from them so easily. marijuana conviction, separate 17-year-olds The government shouldn’t beaten and shackled to a the engine rumbling in An online petition oppos- is also 43. He served a from adults in prisons last be levying eternal punish- window. your hands and the sound ing his pardon is being mandatory 2-year sen- year, just beating a federal ment for crimes teenagers The report seeks of air whooshing past promoted by a California tence after being convicted deadline that would have commit. Justice must to demonstrate that your face, you might not organization advocating under the state’s misbe- cost the state millions. The include the possibility of the torture was use- understand the appeal. for Asians and Pacifi c gotten “school zone” drug state was cited again this redemption: If you serve less because valuable I have intentionally Islanders. law. That law was sold as week for failing to sepa- your sentence, apologize information in the fi ght kept myself from fall- Wahlberg has made no a way to keep predatory rate juveniles from adult for your wrongs and make against al-Qaeda came ing into the rabbit hole secret of his rough past. In adults from dealing drugs o" enders in courthouses. yourself a better person, from conventional inter- with Benjamin Franklin 1988 he was a high school to students, but Snyder Wahlberg probably your slate should be wiped rogation methods, not in “Assassin’s Creed III,” dropout, a drinker and was himself a student at shouldn’t have been tried clean. the brutal treatment. a game set in colonial drug user who ran with a the school where he was as an adult in the fi rst Wahlberg, Snyder, Cora- Torture’s apologists - America during the Revo- tough crowd. His juvenile busted. Coraccio is now in place. Courts – even the ccio and others who have including Cheney, who lution. I could immerse rap sheet included charges his 60s and can point to U.S. Supreme Court – applied for pardons have says he’d “do it again myself in an open world of throwing rocks at a a lifetime of youth sports increasingly recognize that done those things. Wahl- in a minute” - claim that would bring me class of young African- coaching and other com- the cognitive di" erences berg got his high school otherwise. This dispute into direct contact with American kids and calling munity service. between adolescents and diploma just last year. cannot be settled. No George Washington, them racist slurs. On Wahlberg says he wants adults must be factored He’s having some of his one can say that a name, Thomas Je" erson and April 11 of that year, on “formal recognition” that into criminal justice tattoos removed, he says, date or phone number Samuel Adams for hours a Dorchester sidewalk, he has rehabilitated him- decisions. to be a better example to extracted by torture and hours at a time. he hit a Vietnamese man self, but there are practical Then there’s the matter his children. could never have been But what responsible, on the head with a stick reasons as well. He’s of post-release punish- Johnny Trinh, the man obtained by other means. employed adult with a and tried to steal two interested in becoming a ment. In their anti-crime Wahlberg hit with a stick But e! cacy is not the family to care for has time cases of beer from him. reserve o! cer in the Los zeal, legislators have piled during the attempted point. What matters is for that? He punched another Angeles Police Depart- on prohibitions that con- robbery, said this week not whether torture pro- Our kids, though, live Vietnamese man while ment. Wahlberg and his tinue long after criminals he’s forgiven Wahlberg duces more information in those enhanced worlds trying to escape – hurling brothers also own several have served their sen- and that he supports the or less. What matters is with their real-life friends racial slurs as he did – but “Wahlburgers” restau- tences. If you’re convicted pardon. that torture is manifestly when not “burdened” by he didn’t get far. He was rants, with an ambitious of a drug o" ense, you can The Commonwealth of immoral - and clearly school. And so many of arrested, and though only plan to expand the fran- never – ever – get a federal Massachusetts should be illegal under U.S. and them come away with 16, was tried as an adult. chise. His felony record college grant or loan. just as forgiving. international law. little tolerance for the, yes, He served 45 days of a in Massachusetts, he says, In several states, felons The CIA says it relied mundane realities of life. 2-year sentence. could make it hard for forever lose their right to —Rick Holmes is opin- on Bush administra- I love video games - I’m Wahlberg is 43 now, him to get the licenses he vote. A criminal record ion editor for the Daily tion legal opinions hoping to spend much and can cite 20 years of needs to do business in can keep ex-o" enders News. He can be reached attesting that torture is of my retirement with clean living, professional other states. from getting jobs, housing, at rholmes@wickedlocal. not really torture. The some sort of video-game success and philanthropic When it comes to public assistance and driv- com. Follow him on Twit- Senate report shows, console, so this is not a work to back up his juvenile o" enders, ers licenses. ter @HolmesAndCo. however, that the CIA rant against them. And was less than honest “Tetris” (my go-to favor- in its representations ite) is likelier than “Call to the Department of of Duty” to make you feel armed SWAT teams are police acted appropriately distance from Michael Justice lawyers about violent. But I’m worried. MOELLER used. in the other 147 cases, but Brown Jr. and awaited what was being done There’s a big di" erence From Page E1 Police in the United there were few investi- backup. This strategy to the detainees. Again, between the video-game States should also be gated by independent would have kept Michael this argument misses the world our kids have Liang shot and killed Mr. unarmed. authorities. Brown alive and he would big picture: Those who grown up in and adults Akia Gurley, an unarmed, - The vast majority of There is a complete lack now be facing appropriate ordered and committed who played many hours 22-year-old black man in citizen-on-citizen shoot- of public transparency charges. O! cer Wilson torture would not be of Atari or Nintendo the stairwell of apartment ings in the United States, when it comes to fatal would be admired for his so eager to hide behind but still spent most of building. On the same including horrendous shootings by agents of the cool decision, and he’d a paper-thin legalis- their time learning how day, in Cleveland, Ohio, massacres, were not FBI and the U.S. Border still be a member of the tic veneer if they truly to read, learn and study O! cer Tim Loehmann stopped by the armed Patrol who have killed Ferguson Police Depart- believed what they did without any interactive, was videotaped shooting cops. well over 100 people in ment. If the police o! cers was right. multimedia tech. dead 12-year-old Tamir - Unarmed police would the last 15 years. in Cleveland and New Why would the CIA Teens today are playing Rice within 2 seconds be shooting very few These failures of York had been unarmed, o! cer in charge of the in better-than-real worlds after Loehmann had people, black or white. accountability and 12-year-old Tamir Rice in program destroy all where you’re invincible stepped out of his police That alone would be a public transparency are Cleveland would be alive videotapes of water- and can make money car. Tamir was a black giant stride toward reduc- undermining the public’s and with his mother. Akai boarding sessions? Why with little e" ort -- and child playing alone with a ing racial tensions. confi dence in a pillar of Gurley in New York City would the agency fi ght being taught by teach- toy gun in broad daylight - Shootings by local our democracy: fair and would be alive. the Senate investigators ers who have exhausted in a small park. police and federal agents equal justice. It is possible to have so fi ercely, at one point themselves desperately Between 1980 and are essentially beyond - The militarization of strong gun-control laws, hacking into the com- trying to entertain them 2012, police in the United public accountability. In police for crowd control reduce the number of mittee’s computers? Why into learning. States shot and killed over 2010, “Federal prosecu- has evolved into a mas- guns in circulation, and would there be such a What hath we 12,000 people according tors sought indictments querade of malevolent have a responsible system coordinated attempt by wrought? to the FBI record, 545 in 162,000 non-police Darth Vaders armed of law enforcement torture’s apologists to If you’re the parent of per year on average. In related cases. In all but 11, to the teeth, the very similar to that in Great steer the “debate” toward a totally obsessed video contrast, police in Great they succeeded.” However, antithesis of “commu- Britain. Failing that, we subsidiary questions and gamer who is now a suc- Britain killed no one in when police o! cers kill, nity policing” aimed should expect 300,000 away from the central cessful young adult, drop 2012, even though they they are almost never at promoting positive men, women, and chil- issue? me a line. I’d love to have patrol large, ethnically prosecuted. In New York community relations and dren to be shot dead and There is only one some success stories to diverse cities with many City between 1999 and “police legitimacy.” at least another 700,000 answer: They decided share - and to help me social problems. The 2014, 150 people were - The use of lethal force will be wounded in the to answer evil with evil, sleep at night. 128,351 police in Great killed by police, 86 per- by police departments will next 10 years, our legacy rather than justice. And Britain do not and have cent were Black, and 25 only change when police as voters responsible for they knew it was wrong. —Esther Cepeda’s email not been carrying guns percent were unarmed. are no longer armed. those we elect to Congress address is estherjcepeda@ on routine duty for over Only three o! cers were If O! cer Wilson in and state legislatures. —Eugene Robinson’s washpost.com. Follow 100 years. When armed indicted, one was con- Ferguson, MO, had not email address is eugen- her on Twitter, @ police are needed in Great victed, but served no jail been armed, he would —Clark Moeller of Sud- erobinson@washpost. estherjcepeda. Britain, specially trained, time. It may well be that likely have kept his bury is retired. com. Sunday, December 14, 2014 THE DAILY NEWS E3

STATE VIEW A record the commonwealth can be proud of fi rst ran for governor the world in math and sci- are sharply reduced. And our criminal records thousands more people for because I believed that ence. Graduation rates are we’ve established Massa- systems by eliminating the health insurance last year, Igovernment should at all-time highs, dropout chusetts as a leader in the permanent cloud of minor the website didn’t work. focus on the long-term best rates are at all-time lows. global water innovation o" enses on future work Still, I am proud of the fact interests of constituents We have closed achieve- sector. prospects. We’re treating that we found, faced and rather than the short-term ment gaps by over 20 Today, our life sciences drug addiction rather than fi xed these and other prob- politics of elected o! cials, points for African-Ameri- and biotech sector is the warehousing addicts in lems rather than brushed the next generation instead GOV. DEVAL L. PATRICK can and Hispanic students leading global supercluster prison. Violent crime is them under the rug. of the next election. I in English and math. We and the fastest growing down. All of these results have believed that our common- have more charter schools sector in our economy. We’ve cut business taxes been possible because we wealth could be stronger disruptive decisions to and other innovative Digital technology busi- three times, eliminated worked together. Business, if we worked together and address challenges as big as models than ever. Our nesses are fl ourishing. And or simplifi ed hundreds of civic and legislative lead- for the benefi t of everyone, these. community colleges are advanced manufacturing is regulations, and drastically ers, advocates and labor, not just the well connected. But they did. Working now a coordinated system growing 50 percent faster shortened the time it takes the faith community and Some called us naïve. together, we took a di" er- for workforce development. than the national growth to get state permits. entrepreneurs, the mighty They were right. The ent approach: investing And our universities are rate. Our budgets have been and the meek. We listened challenges were that big. time, money and ideas in supported and well-funded Today, we have more balanced, timely and fi s- and learned and argued When I was elected, Mas- education, innovation and again. than doubled our cally responsible. We’ve and compromised. Above sachusetts was 47th in infrastructure across the Today, over 97 percent of investment in public made our pension system all, we have kept our focus the nation in job cre- commonwealth. our residents have health infrastructure, broadband more fair and sustain- on the people behind the ation - before the global What has that produced? insurance, well ahead of is now available statewide, able. Our rainy day fund policy choices. economic collapse. The We have not only every other state. Health our transportation bureau- is one of the strongest in So, yes, it was naïve to public schools were making regained all the jobs lost in care costs for families, cracy is radically simplifi ed, the country. And we’ve think we could. But it was progress, but achievement the Great Recession, but small businesses and local the number of structurally achieved the highest bond important to try and to gaps persisted. Health care also achieved the highest governments are down. defi cient bridges is down rating in commonwealth believe we could or, as my reform was but words on level of employment in And on a host of measures by 23 percent, and we have history. grandmother would say, to paper. Roads, rails and nearly 25 years. Our econ- we are healthier. built or renovated over 200 Not everything has gone “hope for the best and work bridges were crumbling omy has grown twice as Today, we are fi rst in the parks, so that open space well, of course. There were for it.” This is what it means from neglect. The budget fast as the national growth nation in energy e! ciency. is now within a 10-minute fl aws at DTA and tragedy to govern for the next gen- was out of balance. Young rate, and we are fi rst in the We have a nationally recog- walk of 2 million residents. at DCF. One employee eration. The opportunity to people and families were nation in both economic nized clean tech sector that We’ve moved away at a state lab committed do so has been my greatest leaving the state. Of course competitiveness and entre- is growing jobs at double- from the failed policy of a crime that caused us to honor. Thank you. I was naïve to think that preneurial activity. digit rates. We’ve gone from minimum mandatory question the integrity of a political establishment Today, we lead the nation 6 megawatts of alternative sentencing in favor of thousands of drug-related —Deval L. Patrick is gover- would work with me to in student achievement, energy generation to over evidence-based re-entry convictions, and while we nor of the Commonwealth make bold and sometimes and are at or near the top in 800 megawatts. Emissions programs. We’ve reformed signed up hundreds of of Massachusetts.

LOCAL VIEW GRANLUND’S VIEW Defending the police Today’s cops are the militarizing of crimi- been the model in the nal gangs (which now United States. better than ever; resemble paramilitaries), Police do the dirty work the problem is in and the number of teenag- that the citizens don’t ers running around with want to do, and then citi- the communities guns and bombs plotting zens blame the police for attacks on schools, and the consequences. Devolv- By Rob Meltzer one has to wonder why ing to the community Guest Columnist anyone in their right mind tasks that the community would choose a career in can handle, and allowing e do not need law enforcement with its the police to handle the yet another comparatively low pay tasks that only the police W conversation scale. can handle, would go a about race in this country. You may wonder about long way toward restoring What we need is a con- this, that is, until you meet the trust in our commu- versation about the role and talk to police o! cers nities and create a more that we expect the police about their jobs. What I sane environment for department to play in our have generally found is everyone. communities. that individuals who elect Working together to LETTERS TO THE EDITOR As anyone who has a career in law enforce- fi gure out what com- School schedule commitments and jobs that Just before this school ever spent substantial ment do so because they munities can do to make are in confl ict with a later year started, the American time with the police can have an honest and dedi- their own lives better, and change wrong afternoon dismissal. Teens Academy of Pediatrics attest, our police o! cers cated interest in helping demanding that citizens for Natick make these choices as they issued a recommenda- engage in a bewildering others. Policing is com- contribute their time and The cartoon above the become more independent tion that middle and high array of daily activities, munity service. And I have energy to the safety of opinion article dated Dec. and less reliant on school schools not start earlier from tra! c enforcement, never, ever, in any city in their own streets and fam- 7 (“Let the teens sleep in”) or their parents to make than 8:30 a.m. The reasons tra! c management, time which I do business, heard ilies, should not be viewed shows a teenager fast asleep life decisions for them. are many and all revolve in tra! c court, crime a police o! cer make a as a burden. It should during broad daylight, with Programs like METCO and around adolescent brains, investigation, evidence comment which strikes be viewed as an element headphones on. Two ways athletics will su" er from a and its impact on when collection, response me as racist, sexist, homo- of responsible citizen- that can help a person fall school time change. After- teens are able to get to sleep to crimes in progress, phobic or anti-Semitic. ship. There has been no asleep earlier are to darken noon activities will either and how much sleep they response to medical and This wasn’t necessarily the shortage of ideas over the the room and power o" not be possible or will be need. Later start times fi re emergencies, domes- case 50 years ago, but we years, but rather a lack of technology. Current sleep pushed later, causing stu- enable students to get more tic violence interdiction, don’t live in 1964 America political and personal will research contains useful dents to stay up even later. sleep. The benefi ts are real public education, and any longer. to implement alternatives suggestions to improve This is not likely to increase and school systems around more. Our police o! cers Our police are better beyond “model programs.” sleep, since changing school sleep but will increase the country are experi- are also supposed to be trained, better educated It has been 20 years times is acknowledged by their stress level. The later encing them. We here in our social workers, EMTS, and better suited for their since Geo" rey Canada these same experts as being shift of events at the high Wayland are not. social workers, therapists jobs than in any other proposed “Peace O! cer not always practicable. school will trickle down to In many ways, Wayland and priests, as well as era in American history. Corps” in which members The Natick School Com- every other entity using the has been a leader, but in magicians, chief cooks and Police departments in of the community would mittee has pushed the topic building, including younger this respect we are a clear bottle washers. general are more diverse “coordinate strategies in of implementing a later sports teams who will need laggard. Only 40 percent The daily life of a cop and more restrained by the community to prevent high school start time to to wait for fi elds, gyms of our nation’s schools start involves a lot of abuse thoughtful policy than in violence from occurring, the forefront, despite other and other playing areas to earlier than 8 a.m. We are from angry and frustrated any other era in American or when it has occurred pressing concerns facing become available. on the early end of those and drunk and strung-out history. And for all the to make sure it doesn’t Natick schools. There is no The Dec. 7 opinion early districts with school people, as well as a lot stories of police miscon- escalate.” Canada believed indication that Natick has article, with its oversimpli- starting at 7:30 a.m. and of abuse from angry and duct which blanket the that the unarmed mem- problems with tardiness fi cation of sleep research the fi rst buses hitting their frustrated taxpayers who airways, what always bers of the community, rates. No measurements results, is aggravating to fi rst stops at 6:45 a.m. demand immediate atten- seems to be missing is the who would coordinate have been taken show- those familiar with the What do we stand to tion to their problems. factual background for with police, “would be ing Natick’s students at a larger picture. In Natick at benefi t? Within the school: Police also answer to the alleged misconduct, local men and women higher risk than anyone least, there is currently no improvements on many a confl icting series of and a name of the o! - hired to work in their else for depression, car pressing need to institute measures such as better competing interests - for cer. In short, the police very own neighborhoods, accidents or behavior prob- a drastic schedule change attendance, fewer late every person who doesn’t o! cers, regardless of their responsible for knowing lems just because of our when the high school and students, fewer failing understand why the police hard work, are subject the children in the neigh- current, well-functioning its sta" and students have grades, higher GPAs, and would crack down on to endless trial by anec- borhood - their schools, school schedule. Your undergone many changes, higher standardized test black market cigarette dote. Now, add to this the their playgrounds, their newspaper just reported an such as the move to a new scores. Among the benefi ts sales, there is a mayor absurd abuse heaped on afterschool programs. article on Nov. 21 entitled, building, the 1:1 laptop outside of school: fewer who worries about the loss police o! cers in the media They would make a “Natick students’ scores top program, the new schedule car accidents, lower rates of city taxes on cigarette and by those who profi t real e" ort to connect national average.” which they are happy with, of depression, risky behav- and who demands that from sowing mistrust and with parents and other Implementing the and the change from MCAS iors, obesity and Type II the police do something racial antagonism. adults…” His book, “Fist, proposed high school start to PARCC testing this aca- Diabetes. about it. For every person So if we have a problem Stick, Knife, Gun,” needs time change by 45 minutes demic year. We do not need There are logistical chal- who thinks that low- with the police, and the to be dragged out of the later to 8:15 a.m. is actually to burden our teachers and lenges, but these have been level criminals shouldn’t communities in which libraries onto the tables of already a current option students with an additional overcome in district after be confronted on the they act, such that a lack policy-makers. for many students, due to change to their daily lives, district across the country. streets by cops, there is of trust exists, we really It is not the police who earned “privs” in junior and particularly when it is a The most common argu- a roughed-up business need to be asking whether need more training in senior years. A start time of change that 82 percent of ments against involve bus owner who demands pro- the police should stand using force, but, rather, 8:15 a.m. still does not meet the teachers and 71 percent scheduling and athletic tection for himself and his down, and the citizens the individuals within the criteria of the cited sleep of the students surveyed do schedules. Frankly, in com- business from unchecked should stand up in their communities who need research studies, which not want. parison with the benefi ts lawlessness. For every place. to understand the limited indicate no e" ective benefi t SALLY EVANS we will see, these challenges person who wonders why For years, thinkers as role that force can play. for a start time before 8:30 Natick are trivial, and pale in a cop shoots a kid with a diverse as community Taking back our streets a.m. More importantly, this comparison. It is past time fake gun, there is a person activist Geo" rey Canada does not mean march- Later school start to make this change. The “fake” shift will cost Natick makes sense who wonders what kind of and political theorist ing in anger or burning at least an additional only question in my mind responsible parent allows Anthony de Jasay have stores, but rather recog- $133,000 annually, just for Thank you for Rick is whether 8:30 a.m. is late a 12-year-old kid to be written of breaking the nizing that the streets are extra after-school sta" and Holmes’ column (Dec. 7) on enough, but we can study walking around in public “monopoly of violence” ours, always have been buses at the middle schools. later start start times. Your that next year. But without with a realistic-looking air that has been ceded to the ours, and we, the citizens, That money could instead discussion of sleep cycles, delay, let’s adjust our school gun. government, and devolv- should be responsible for be put toward classrooms, the adolescent brain,and start times to a more ratio- Add the war on drugs ing much of the social what happens on them. as $133,000 equates to your recommendation that nal 8:30 a.m. starting with and the war on terror, and work and community about 2.5 teachers. school districts take action the next school year. the federalizing of crimes patrolling back to the citi- —Rob Meltzer practices Many students have and change their start time KIM REICHELT and law enforcement, and zens, as has traditionally law in Concord. afternoon activities, are right on target. Wayland E4 THE DAILY NEWS Sunday, December 14, 2014

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OUR VIEW The death of Eurie Stamps he unarmed black aren’t the kind of pent- man was shot by a up grievances present in LOCAL VIEW T white cop, killed in Ferguson. If the Stamps police custody while he spark didn’t start a fi re, was lying face-down. At maybe it’s because there fi rst the police wouldn’t was less kindling. Christmas customs and history reveal the o! cer’s name In the aftermath, or discuss the details of Framingham made some hristmas, one of the example, relish the nostal- in Britain. They believed the shooting. The dis- improvements in police most joyous days in gic symbolism of Midnight that mistletoe held the trict attorney declined training and community C the calendar, holds Mass. However, Church power to cure diseases, ban to prosecute. There was relations. A year later, traditions mired in historic liturgy merely prescribes evil spirits, insure human grumbling in the minority Framingham’s police chief controversy. Even the exact that it be said ‘in nocte’ or fertility, and bring good community and headlines disbanded the SWAT date of the birth of Jesus during the night. luck. This prompted the in the local paper, but team, citing di! culties in is subject for debate. In Another common Euro- pinning of mistletoe on a no accountability for the sustaining an adequately reality, the precise date FRANK R. MAZZAGLIA pean and Scandinavian ceiling or over a doorway death of an innocent man. trained force. makes no real di" erence to theme is to be especially Christians introduced the Ferguson, Mo.? Staten Four years after Eurie observant Christians, how- kind to animals during the kiss under the mistletoe Island, N.Y.? No. Fram- Stamps was killed, Paul ever a walk through lesser and concluded that the Christmas season. This as a token of good will and ingham, Mass. Duncan is still on the job. known seasonal artifacts is birth of Jesus would come custom is attributed to friendship. Holly symbol- Eurie Stamps Sr., a Stamps’ family still hasn’t revealing.. at the time of the winter St. Francis of Assisi, who izes the burning bush of 68-year-old grandfather had their day in court. Ancient Rome celebrated solstice. They then calcu- encouraged farmers to Moses and the prickly of 12, was killed during a Family members have the birthdays of rulers and lated September 24, six put out extra food for all points and red berries midnight SWAT raid on fi led a wrongful death outstanding individuals months after the annuncia- their animals and particu- symbolize Christ’s crown of his Framingham home on suit against the town, but not only during their lives tion of John the Baptist as larly the birds, so that all thorns. Ivy was the symbol Jan. 5, 2011. Today, the the wheels of justice turn but even after their deaths. a starting point. They then creation could rejoice at of the Roman wine god deaths of black men at the slowly. It didn’t even matter if the targeted March 25 as the Christmas time. Bacchus. Christians use it hands of over-aggressive Another reason Stamps’ day of the celebration was day of the Incarnation and Boston played a major to demonstrate the power white police is a national story was little noticed the same as the actual date by that reckoning con- role in the custom of of divine strength to aid issue. Four years ago, the outside Framingham of birth. Ancient Greece cluded that December 25 placing Christmas lights human weakness. The death of Eurie Stamps is that cases like the followed the same custom. would be the actual feast of in windows. The practice laurel wreath that symbol- was barely noticed. deaths of Michael Brown When the Greeks or the the Nativity. actually originated in Ire- ized triumph became for Stamps was not a and Eric Garner are Romans were not certain If that’s too math- land and crossed the ocean Christians the victory over suspect. The target of the exceptions, not the of the true date of birth, ematical for you, another with Irish immigrants. sin and death proclaimed the police investigation, rule. The government they just picked a day. common theoretical ver- Its American roots stem by Christ’s birth. The Stamps’ stepson, had doesn’t keep statistics on Plato’s birth was celebrated sion is that the choice of from the lit candles on the poinsettia, a native plant of been taken into police police-involved homi- on the feast of the mytho- that particular date had windows of stately estates Central America, symbol- custody down the street, cides, let alone less-lethal logical god Apollo. more to do with December on Beacon Hill. izes the fl aming star of before o! cers went into encounters, but privately- About the year 330, 25 being the day Rome The custom of decorat- Bethlehem. There’s no end the house. They went collected data put the shortly after the end of celebrated the mythical ing homes with plants has to Christmas symbols. in anyway, in full body death toll from police the great persecution of sun god “Sol Invictus: the defi nite pagan origins, but Some work hard to armor, with battering shootings higher than 500 Christians, the church in Unconquered Sun.” This Christians demonstrated downplay Christmas but rams, fl ash-bang grenades a year. Rome assigned December happened to coincide with a genius for their own it’s a lost cause. The joy and assault rifl es. Stamps The o! cers involved 25 as the o! cial date to the fi rmly held Christian religious interpretations. and hope that come with was killed when O! cer almost never pay a price. celebrate the birth of Jesus. belief that Jesus the Christ The evergreen, which the season are too deeply Paul Duncan’s rifl e went A CommonWealth Maga- There is a symbolic frame- was the “Light of the comforted pagans during ingrained in the Christian o" . It was an unfortunate zine investigation found work for that date. Certain World”. a long cold winter, was spirit. accident, Middlesex DA 73 people killed by police theologians argued that In keeping with Judaic adopted by Christians as Gerry Leone concluded. o! cers in Massachusetts the biblical scripture in practice, Christmas is a a mark of eternal life. The —Frank Mazzaglia can be In some ways, Eurie over the last 12 years. In Malachai 4:2 calls the Mes- season for countless tradi- mistletoe was considered reached at Frankwrote@ Stamps’ death was more every case, after inves- siah the “Sun of Justice” tions. Many Catholics, for sacred by the pagan Druids aol.com outrageous than the cases tigations conducted by that have sent thou- fellow police o! cers and sands to the streets in county district attorneys, LOCAL VIEW protest. Stamps wasn’t the o! cer involved was challenging a cop like exonerated. Michael Brown, or sell- In most cases, that con- ing untaxed cigarettes clusion was likely correct, like Eric Garner. He was but in every case? in his bedroom in his We appreciate the dan- If I only had a brain pajamas, watching the gers police face and their Celtics game. Protests need to defend them- here was a story House could do somethin’ of absolutely every issue erupted in the recent selves. But the standard in the paper besides votin’ over and has to be split strictly cases when grand juries applied in the Stamps “Tlast week that over again to repeal the along party lines these failed to indict the o! cers case and others – whether really amazed me,” said my A" ordable Care Act, for days.” involved, but Leone never the o! cer in question Uncle Fud as he poured which they’ve got no alter- “Except for one Repub- even put the Stamps case committed a crime – me a cup of co" ee in the native. He might even be lican, Sen. John McCain,” before a grand jury. may be too low. And the kitchen of his Chigger able to talk sense about the Uncle Fud said. “It ain’t There are many rea- way these incidents are Mountain Farm. GLENN ICKLER immigration problem.” often that I agree with sons the killing of Stamps handled, with fellow “What story was it?” I “Another good point,” I him, but he’s got it right didn’t spur the kind of o! cers and sympathetic asked. said. this time.” outrage we’ve seen over prosecutors investigat- “It was the one about transplants in Washington “And what if a pair of “He’s had personal expe- the killing of Brown ing allegations against 100 jars of brains that dis- right now?” brains that know when it’s rience with torture,” I said. and Garner. Stamps was police and weighing the appeared from a research “What brains do you time to step down and give “He knows it usually has killed in the middle of evidence in the secrecy facility at the University of have in mind for replace- somebody else a chance no positive results.” night, in the middle of of a grand jury proceed- Texas,” he said. ment?” I asked. were transplanted into the “Results shouldn’t even winter. There were no ing, has led to a loss of “This amazed you?” I “Well, for starters, there’s sterile skulls of the Demo- be part of the debate,” witnesses and no video. credibility, especially in said. Sen. Mitch McConnell, the cratic Party’s congressional he said. “Lots of horrible The MetroWest Daily communities that are “It did,” Uncle Fud said. Republican who is about leaders, Sen. Harry Reid things get results. Poison News covered the story the target of aggressive “Who’d have thought there to become the Senate and Rep. Nancy Pelosi?” gas gets results but Ameri- extensively, but it barely policing. were 100 brains in Texas, majority leader,” Uncle Fud Uncle Fud said. “They’re cans don’t use it. Genocide merited a mention in It’s time legislators at even pickled in laboratory said. “What if his brain, both way past their gets results but Americans the Boston papers and the state and national jars?” which is locked on destro- prime hangin’ onto those don’t condone it. Like the on the TV news. Twitter level take a hard look at “You’re being unkind,” I yin’ President Obama, was positions.” president says, secretly hadn’t yet become a tool many factors in these said. “That story made me replaced by a brain dedi- “A third good point,” I torturin’ our prisoners just of activism. Framingham’s police shootings: mili- think of the movie ‘Young cated to doin’ what’s best said. ain’t what Americans do.” minority community is tarized equipment and Frankenstein,’ in which the for the country? Somethin’ “But most of all, I wish “McCain said it best,” smaller than Ferguson’s, tactics, the overuse of modern Dr. Frankenstein, might actually get accom- that any kind of decent I said. “He said, ‘This and it didn’t take to the SWAT teams in non- pronounced Frankensteen, plished by workin’ with the brains would be trans- question isn’t about our streets. There was no local emergency situations, is told that the brain he president instead of block- planted into the creeps enemies. It’s about us. It’s rabble-rouser to organize the potential benefi ts of has transplanted into a headedly blockin’ every who are defendin’ the about who we were, who a demonstration, and Al body cameras and the seven-foot-tall male body move he tries to make.” methods of torture the we are, and who we aspire Sharpton never came to need for independent came from a jar labeled “Good point,” I said. CIA has been usin’ on ter- to be. It’s about how we town. investigations of alleged ‘Abby something … Abby “And what about a rorism suspects,” he said. represent ourselves to the Framingham’s police police misconduct. Such Normal.’” transplant for Rep. John “The Republicans’ reaction world.’” force is more diverse than a review and the reforms “That would be scary,” Boehner, the speaker of to the Senate Intelligence “A really good point,” Ferguson’s, and better that come from it would Uncle Fud said. “But the House of Representa- Committee’s report amazes said Uncle Fud. at community relations. be a fi tting legacy for wouldn’t it be great if tives?” he said. “Give him a me even more than there We’d like to think one Eurie Stamps and other somebody like Dr. Fran- brain with a backbone and bein’ 100 brains in Texas.” —Glenn Ickler of Hoped- reason Framingham innocents caught in the kenstein, or Frankensteen, he might stand up to those “Me, too,” I said. “It ale is a retired newspaper didn’t erupt is that there line of fi re. could perform some brain Tea Party nuts and the seems that the discussion editor. Sunday, December 14, 2014 THE DAILY NEWS E5

NATIONAL VIEW NATIONAL VIEW The problem with ‘just-in-time’ labor Return of Employees deserve better notice of their work schedules the taxi wars ail the lowly bar code. By enabling The cycle of H retailers to track deregulation, sales and inventory, it allows them to order goods reregulation from warehouses and manufacturers only when eregulating the CATHERINE RAMPELL needed, reducing overhead taxi industry? and costs. Just-in-time Been there, done production is a signal D that. unpredictable; and con- achievement of our digi- In recent months, sumers were reluctant to tized age. battles over the taxi price-shop or interrogate Just-in-time labor is not. industry have adopted drivers about their insur- Millions of retail workers a Manichaean fl air: ance and safety records. are routinely summoned villainous, politically They just hopped into to their workplaces with well-connected, protec- the fi rst available cab. little more advance warn- tionist cartel vs. virtuous, Over time, tra" c ing than their employers pro-consumer underdog and pollution became accord the truckloads start-up (assuming you bigger issues, incomes of goods or food those consider a $40 billion fell as individual drivers workers sell. Unlike those company an underdog). secured fewer rides, and products, of course, work- Nevada recently banned service declined. By the ers have lives. They have Uber - after the company early 1990s, nearly every kids to get to school or reportedly failed to obey city had re-regulated. put in day care, families to with cultural and lifestyle Similarly, there’s nothing laws relating to licens- A generation later, the cook for, courses to take, liberalism than with such distinctly San Franciscan ing, vehicle inspections cycle is repeating itself. other gigs to report to, New Dealish concerns as about a law that requires and insurance - in a Consumers are again promises to keep. They advancing workers rights. employers to let their work- move widely interpreted disgusted by Big Taxi can do all that if they have In recent years, however, ers know their hours far as being orchestrated by and its resistance to regular schedules, but such the city has staked its claim enough in advance so they Big Taxi. Florida’s Bro- innovation. Impressed schedules are often hard to as a champion of work- can plan their schedules. ward County threatened by well-heeled, Silicon come by. HAROLD MEYERSON ers’ interests, much as it A bill requiring all U.S. to arrest ride-sharing Valley-backed services A recent study by the did in the 1930s, when a employers to do just that, drivers and impound that frequently prove University of Chicago’s general strike actually shut in fact, has been intro- their cars unless they more reliable and - at Susan Lambert reported have led the list of newly the city down. In Novem- duced in both the Senate start complying with least for now - cheaper, that 41 percent of young created jobs, the number of ber’s election, city voters (where it has six sponsors) licensure requirements. consumers and pun- (ages 26 to 32) hourly workers subjected to such overwhelmingly approved and the House (where it These kinds of battles dits cheerlead for workers get their schedules existential constraints has raising the minimum wage has more than 40). The have played out before. tearing down Big Taxi a week or less in advance, increased. to $15. In recent years, Republican Congress that In 1635, England’s and converting the and that “in the course of Now, one city has the Board of Supervisors takes o" ce next month Charles I ordered horse- livery industry into a a single month, workers’ decided to help such work- mandated paid sick leave is no more likely to enact drawn carriages for hire laissez-faire paradise. hours varied on average by ers gain more control over and required employers such legislation than it is to (hackneys) to be selec- They praise Uber, and 37 percent in comparison their lives. Last month, with more than 20 workers mandate collective farms. tively licensed in order to other “sharing economy” to what they considered San Francisco’s Board of either to provide them with For Democrats, however, “restrain the multitude companies embroiled their usual hours.” Supervisors unanimously health insurance or pay this is just the kind of cause and promiscuous use in similar battles, for Regular hours were once adopted a Retail Work- into a fund o! ering cover- they can invoke not just to of coaches.” This order ignoring inconvenient a cornerstone of Americans’ ers Bill of Rights. The age to the uninsured. rally young and minority was promptly ignored, laws, as if such actions work lives. They were a fea- new ordinance requires Thanks to Silicon Valley, voters but also to appeal to leading to a protracted were a form of civil dis- ture of the union contracts employers to schedule their San Francisco is not the common sense of most regulatory fi ght involv- obedience. Those of us that covered a third of the workers’ hours at least two merely a liberal city but Americans, who under- ing both crown and who question why new workforce in the decades weeks in advance, though also a wealthy one, eco- stand that workers are not Parliament. entrants should be uni- following World War II. it makes allowances for nomically able to legislate products to be summoned During the Great laterally exempted from But as unions have van- schedule changes beyond social guarantees at levels at a moment’s notice. As Depression, the number safety requirements and ished and workers su! ered the employer’s control. It that many other cities Democrats regroup from of people driving unli- tax bills are dismissed a loss of power, thousands also requires employers to and states cannot match. November’s debacle, censed taxis surged, as as luddites or lackeys of of employers have taken to pay workers for hours they There’s nothing peculiarly they should develop and unemployed Americans some thuggish cartel. summoning their employ- spend on call only to have left about its desire to promote a Workers’ Bill of fl ed to the informal And when things of ees — or telling them to their shifts canceled and to help beleaguered workers, Rights ensuring the kinds economy when they course go wrong - work- wait, unpaid, until they o! er their part-timers more however. Last month, San of basic guarantees that couldn’t fi nd stable ers and consumers get are either called in or told hours before they seek to Franciscans were joined by Americans secured many jobs. (Sound familiar?) hurt, or taxes go unpaid not to report — with scant hire new workers. the voters of Alaska, Arkan- decades ago and, for a time, Pandemonium ensued. - policymakers rush to regard for such hoary For nearly half a cen- sas, Nebraska and South took for granted. In a 1933 editorial, reinvent the wheel by concerns as the workers’ tury, since the hippies Dakota in raising their The Washington Post haphazardly restoring familial obligations. In fi rst fl ocked to Haight- respective minimum-wage —Harold Meyerson is railed against the rising regulations once again recent years, as low-end Ashbury, San Francisco standards — albeit not to editor-at-large of The Amer- accident rate caused by (such as newly requiring retail and restaurant gigs has been associated more San Francisco’s $15 level. ican Prospect undertrained drivers; people who drive passen- lack of liability insur- gers or rent properties to carry insurance, which NATIONAL VIEW ance when accidents did occur; intolerable should have been a no- congestion; and few pro- brainer all along). That tections for drivers who is, they do so if the newly logged “16 hours per day, politically connected in their desperate e! orts interests - “sharing to eke out a living.” economy” companies Giving drones a pass The District of Colum- and their lobbying parti- bia and other cities soon sans - let them. Selective outrage distant as Pearl Harbor. given some legitimate secu- enacted laws to address Look, there are indeed But if America had the rity." This is clearly what safety, liability and tra" c lots of dumb, expensive from ‘reckless’ equivalent of a 9/11 attack some committee members concerns. As decades regulations on the books, each year, the range of intended: exposure and a passed, though, local many of which have Democrats acceptable responses would bodyguard. livery regulators became been crafted to protect expand. V-E Day, after all, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, overgrown and corrupt, commercial incumbents ith the release partially resulted from the the outgoing chair of the and Americans grew rather than the public of the Feinstein MICHAEL GERSON fi rebombing of Dresden. committee, was thought disgusted with taxi car- interest. But the solution W report on CIA V-J Day encompassed to be more responsible. tels that rarely seemed to bad regulation is not interrogations of high-value Hiroshima. Both involved But her legacy is a mas- to prioritize consumer no regulation. It is good, terrorists a decade ago, let's terrorist and blowing his tickertape parades and sive dump of intelligence interests. thoughtful regulation consider the situation of limbs apart. But interna- incinerated children. details useful to the Starting around the that carefully consid- intelligence personnel who tional human rights groups The American response enemy in a time of war. mid-1960s, a new wave ers our public welfare have been involved, not in and legal authorities gener- in the war against terror- And she knows the likely of deregulation began. goals and how best to that program but in drone ally look down on both. ism has been dramatically results. Secretary of State About two dozen cities achieve them. And then strikes against terrorists, The main di! erence? One more selective and focused John Kerry expressed dramatically deregulated it is regularly updating conducted in a variety of is President Obama's favor- on combatants. Even so, the concerns of allies their livery industries, those laws so the regula- countries around the world. ite program. A few years the CIA is often forced about increased violence. allowing for the massive tory apparatus doesn’t They have four sources of from now, a new president to operate at the edge A National Intelligence entry of new cabs and get captured by industry, direction and protection: and new congressional of America's acceptable Council report warned lifting restrictions on thereby rebooting the Their strikes are authorized leaders may take a di! erent response - currently with of threats to embassies, fare-setting, licensing same cycle of consumer by the president, briefed to view. drone strikes and a variety installations and indi- and other requirements disgust, deregulation and Congress, deemed lawful At the CIA, these con- of activities to degrade viduals, and explored how - such as having to serve half-baked re-regulation. by the attorney general and cerns are not hypothetical. and dismantle the Islamic partners would react to the poor areas. Innovation Despite popular determined useful by the "I know the Predator pro- State. The avoidance of disclosure. and competition were narratives, neither the CIA director. gram intimately," a former "boots on the ground" in So why has Feinstein the name of the game. protectionist incum- Yet people in the drone senior intelligence o" cer the Middle East has placed donned her Guy Fawkes (Again, sound familiar?) bent nor the cowboying, program know that told me. "There have been an additional burden on mask? Tension with the Alas, as legal scholars anti-regulation upstart co-workers involved in hundreds and hundreds of intelligence services to CIA? Simple stubbornness? such as Paul Stephen is “pro-consumer.” Both enhanced interrogation Predator shots, the most work with (often fl awed) The main reason, I suspect, Dempsey and others are pro-profi t-making, had these assurances as carefully targeted in the allies, target enemies and is di! erent. Democrats later documented, this which sometimes aligns well. And the drone pro- history of warfare, but not strike from afar. Political who approved of enhanced Wild West approach with consumer interests gram has some distinctive 100 percent right. What if leaders, once again, urge interrogation at the time proved disastrous. and sometimes doesn’t. characteristics. Instead of the next president, [say] intelligence o" cials to do (such as Feinstein) must Taxi entry surged. But, It’s government’s job to employing waterboarding, Rand Paul or Elizabeth what is necessary. now construct an elaborate unexpectedly, prices fi gure out which rules of stress positions and sleep Warren, comes after people So the Feinstein report fantasy world in which rose in every single the game actually serve deprivation, the targets involved in this program?" comes in the middle of they were not knowledge- deregulated market. consumers - and workers are killed (sometimes "If you have to worry a war, targeting many able and supportive. They This likely happened for - best in the long run. with collateral damage about a new administra- Americans who are still postulate a new reality in several reasons: Gov- to the innocent). Presi- tion coming along 10 engaged in it. It is an act of which they were innocent ernment regulations, —Washington Post dent Obama dramatically years down the road," the exceptional congressional and deceived - requiring it turns out, had been columnist Catherine expanded the use of drones, intelligence o" cer told recklessness. Democratic a conspiracy from three capping prices below Rampell’s email address as well as increasing the me, "making villains out of senators on the Intelligence former CIA directors, three market value (especially is crampell@washpost. proportion of attacks that agency o" cials following Committee interviewed former deputy directors in underserved neigh- com. Follow her on Twit- are "signature strikes" the exact letter of the law, it none of the key fi gures in and hundreds of others. borhoods); fares were ter, @crampell. - meaning that those is sobering. We think about the program, yet fought for Occam would indicate relatively opaque and authorizing attacks don't that all the time." months to make it easier to a di! erent answer: guilt, know the identity of the This is the scrutiny that identify the targets of their hypocrisy and betrayal. target, just its likely value. comes only with success. report. "Those personnel," Get in on the Conversation Some may argue a subtle For many, the 9/11 attacks said (soon to be former) —Michael Gerson's email Online: metrowestdailynews.com/opinion moral distinction between are becoming as his- Sen. Mark Udall, "if they address is michaelgerson@ or milforddailynews.com/opinion harshly interrogating a torically and emotionally have that worry, can be washpost.com. E8 THE DAILY NEWS Sunday, December 14, 2014

HUMOR LOCAL VIEW CIA combats release of Senate Preserving grandparents’ stories (Third of three parts) memories of their lives y father died and the lessons they’ve Intelligence Committee report two days after learned. my wedding. I This trend is partly with secret protest in Lithuania Mreceived the news at the driven by them, and partly airport in Hawaii. driven by their children he release of a Like most at the march, My wife and I had just who, as they get older scathing report con- Mr. Goss said he had been arrived, excited to begin SAELEN GHOSE themselves, realize that demning the Central compelled to join the pro- our honeymoon adven- not only are their parents T ture. While walking to the not as ignorant as they Intelligence Agency’s test after the release of the detention and interrogation Senate Intelligence Com- baggage claim, I thought to soaking up the tropi- thought they were, but of terrorism suspects has mittee’s report. I heard a muddled voice cal sun of Hawaii. Why they actually have lived sparked an unprecedented The long-delayed over the loudspeaker say wouldn’t I be? I was with quite interesting lives. show of unrest and protest PHILIP MADDOCKS accounting, fi ve years in the my name. my new bride and we were While attending school, by the agency as a wave making and based on more “Mr. Ghose, please come taking o! on our fi rst trip I always thought the truth of CIA agents, analysts, than six million internal to the Will Call desk.” I as a married couple. was something a person and managers staged a Once safely out of sight agency documents, is a paused in my tracks. I When I got to the Will could rely on, a steadfast secret protest in Lithuania and in the secret detention detailed and highly criti- shook my head and kept Call desk it was my new beacon in a sea of contra- demanding justice and fair- center, many expressed cal – sometimes gruesome on walking, pretty sure father-in-law on the diction and deceit. But the ness from a Congress and their outrage, promising to - description of the agency's it was just my ears still phone. He told me the more I learn about truth public that is too quick to summon the unparalleled operation and oversight of a unclogging from the news that I assumed he the more I understand judge and too eager to keep legal might at the agency’s program carried out by CIA 15-hour journey. would tell. I hung up. that truth is a matter of the spy agency in check. disposal. o" cials and contractors in “Did you hear that?” What else is there to say? perspective. It’s hard to Saying the Senate “This stops today,” some secret prisons in the years I said to my wife as we Besides the sadness that I argue dates and times, Intelligence Committee’s operatives chanted. “John after the Sept. 11, 2001, ter- continued walking. felt, I also felt that a world but particulars, and the fi nding proved that fair Yoo is writing a memoran- rorist attacks. “Hear what?” she said. of opportunity had been how and why driving the dealing could be found only dum,” others murmured, “Today’s outcome is one “Oh nothing.” missed. particulars can always through a “dark protest” referring to the author of a that many in our agency We headed down the My father had traveled be debated. I often hear in a faraway country at the series of memorandums by did not want,” Mr. Hayden escalator when I heard the from India to the states to myself saying to my kids: onetime site for a secret the Justice Department’s said, showing signs of strain voice again. “Mr. Ghose, study science, but chose There are two sides to the detention center they could O" ce of Legal Counsel from the 4,400-mile trip. please come to the Will to stay after he met and story. I’m sure there’s a not reveal, the marchers in 2002 that authorized “Yet the CIA owns a proud Call desk.” My wife turned married my mother. After little truth to both. vowed to continue their the original program for and powerful tradition to me and said, “I heard having children, he felt To me, my parent’s e! ort to correct the wrong enhanced interrogation of expressing ourselves that.” I nodded my head. I his main role in life was to generation seemed to – by secretly protesting and techniques. through nonviolent and had too. provide for his family, and instinctively understand secretly monitoring certain While hundreds of angry secret protest.” It’s never a good thing to that end he worked ever that. Stories always left lawmakers’ computers until but generally secretive Now, Mr. Hayden said, to hear your name being so hard as a chemistry wiggle room for imagina- the record is set straight. demonstrators from the the Senate Intelligence called over the loud- professor and consultant tion to fi ll in the holes. “Just because the Senate CIA took to the detention Committee’s decision to speaker at some far away for NASA. Perhaps, some facts might Intelligence Committee has center’s hallways – the release the declassifi ed airport, unless of course What he didn’t do was be lost by telling the story gone public that doesn’t police in Lithuania reported 524-page executive sum- you’re having trouble document much of his life. much after it happened, mean the CIA has to stoop relatively few arrests. mary and a rebuttal by meeting up with your He told us some stories, but it’s probably the most to that level,” whispered Mr. Tenet, speaking from Republican members - the party, or you’ve lost a child he introduced us to Indian entertaining and interest- former C.I.A. directors the undisclosed location, entire report is more than and that child has been culture and the Bengali ing way to do it. George J. Tenet. said the decisions in the 6,000 pages long - has found. But since we had language, but probably As I write the last few More than 100 CIA past to take dozens of accelerated the need for “a just gotten married, and not wanting to impose any sentences on documen- operatives - including the detainees to secret prisons counterintelligence action” we had no children at the sort of cultural limita- tation, the question I former C.I.A. directors in Poland, Romania, Lithu- by the CIA. time, and since we were tions on us, he didn’t share began with — Why do we Porter J. Goss, Michael V. ania and other countries Earlier on Tuesday, C.I.A. quite content just the two enough to have anything document? — hasn’t really Hayden, and Tenet – made highlighted the frustrations director John O. Brennan of us, we knew that what- stick. changed. The way we doc- the 4,452-mile trip from that many CIA workers announced the start of a ever that voice had to say One of the things that ument will always change Langley to Lithuania, have harbored about a pilot program to equip U.S. to me wouldn’t be good. saddens me most — and along with new technol- passing the time by singing Congress that often seems senators and representa- What does this have to this will seem quite ridicu- ogy and new trends, but songs penned by former out to get them. tives with body cameras. do with documentation? lous — is that he never our need to tell stories, or Attorney General John “When anybody in this But how useful such Quite a lot. gave me his recipe for the possibly more importantly, Ashcroft and occasionally country is not being treated technology will prove to The news wasn’t good. special vegetable salad our human need to hear chanting the now-familiar equally under the law, that be in improving relations My father had been sick concoction that he would the stories that inform us, “Such language is not is a problem,” Mr. Tenet between the spy agency and and was unable to attend make on Sundays. What I will never change. helpful” - written by Jose said, “and it’s our job to lawmakers and in avoid- my wedding several states wouldn’t give to be able to We are a curious lot, and A. Rodriguez Jr. when he help solve it – sometimes ing embarrassing episodes, away from where he was taste that dish again and documentation is the best was the head of the CIA's with the help of Lithuania.” such as the one earlier this resting. The morning of remember what it was like way for us to learn where Counterterrorism Center Mr. Goss, speaking on the year when the C.I.A. was our trip I spoke to him on to be with him. we came from and thus and responding to those steps of the center, said that caught secretly monitoring the phone and he assured Many people have a discover who we are. questioning the usefulness it was a “deeply emotional a committee charged with me that he was recovering similar story to tell, but and legality of the extreme day” for the CIA, and that supervising its activities, quite well and encouraged that’s beginning to change. —Saelen Ghose can be interrogation techniques it it reminded him of his days remains an open question. me to go. Enter regret. More grandparents, reached at saighose@ was using at the time. as a member of Book and “If all goes well,” he said, I ignored the feeling in retirees, and seniors are gmail.com He is the As the operatives Snake, a secret society at “you won’t be hearing an my gut, the one that told writing their memoirs founder of Personal His- deboarded in Lithuania, Yale, his alma mater. But answer to that any time me that something wasn’t or telling their stories on tory Writers dot com several were seen quietly he implored demonstra- soon.” right, and I hopped on video, using new tech- (www.personalhistory- carrying o! signs protest- tors to voice their outrage the plane looking forward nology to pass down writers.com). ing the “second guessing” peacefully and not engage —Philip Maddocks writes a and cherry-picking” of the in destructive violence or weekly satirical column. He By Steve Newman Senate Intelligence Com- enhanced interrogation can be reached at pmad- Earthweek: A Diary of the Planet mittee’s report. techniques. [email protected].

HUMOR 4.8 -57° 5.0 Toko, Siberia Too much whoop-de-do 5.0 Hagupit 5.8 6.6 ’ve been listening competition from upstarts 6.8 to Christmas music trying to break into the I recently, being the Christmas music biz. I saw a holiday season and all, and commercial the other night came to the conclusion that for a holiday album from +116° Andy Williams is no longer LOU. All caps LOU, appar- Oodnadatta, “The Guy.” For the past 50, ently. I don’t know who S. Australia 60, maybe 70 or 80 years, LEE OSTAZEWSKI LOU is. it seemed that every fourth At fi rst I thought Lou Week Ending December 12, 2014 Christmas song on the radio Reed. But his take on holi- Quickening Extremes Prescribed Pollution • Earth movements were also felt was sung by Andy Williams. that you’ll recognize goes day classics might have been The number of outbreaks of Some of the most widely in western Guatemala, St. Lucia and Well, the Williams domi- like this: a bit dark: extreme heat and cold used anti-inflammatory other islands of the eastern Carib- nance is over. The new big “It’s the holiday season/ “Frosty the Snowman, around the world during the drugs, which are inadver- bean, eastern Romania, islands of the voice in holiday music is And Santa Claus is coming was a very troubled soul. past three decades increased tently finding their way eastern Aegean Sea and in far eastern more rapidly than the rate of global into the environment, have been shown Papua New Guinea. none other than Michael round/The Christmas snow With a hookah pipe and a warming, which scientists say is fuel- to significantly affect crop growth. Re- Buble. Yes, the young singer is white on the ground/ button nose, and two eyes as ing the trend. Researchers at the U.K.’s searchers from the University of Ex- El Niño Arrives with the old-fashioned When old Santa gets into black and dead as coal.” University of East Anglia looked at eter say this is especially worrisome The Japan Meteorological musical styling is fast town/He’ll be coming down Of course, if Lou Reed temperature records from 1881 to because waste management systems Agency (JMA) became the becoming the singing voice the chimney, down/Coming was still alive he could have 2013 before coming to the conclusion. are unable to remove drugs like di- first weather bureau in the They found that the occurrence of un- clofenac and ibuprofen from sewage world to declare that the El of the season. down the chimney down.” changed some of his biggest usually cold periods had been increas- in treatment plants. Sewage sludge is Niño ocean warming in the tropical And by old-fashioned That’s OK so far. The song hits into holiday songs, too: ing at a faster rate than heat waves increasingly being used as fertilizer, Pacific has returned. The phenomenon musical styling, I mean my is basically an earworm, “Take a walk on the Noel until 30 years ago. But the trend re- while waste water is often used to irri- occurs every few years and causes a mom would have liked him. you can’t stop humming it. side/And the Santa elves go/ versed beginning in 1983, with ex- gate crops. The researchers focused on variety of weather shifts around the treme heat events becoming more fre- lettuce and radish plants and how sev- world. The JMA declaration came as I am fi ne if Michael Buble Upon hearing it, I instinc- Doo do doo do doo do do quent. The study, published in the eral commonly prescribed drugs af- the strongest Pacific storm to strike supplants Andy Williams tively start snapping my doo ...” journal Geophysical Research Letters, fected them. They found that drugs California since the last El Niño five as King of the Christmas fi ngers and develop an Other rock artists that I also looked at trends during the from the fenamic acid class affected years ago was roaring onshore. Vari- Songs. Some of the Andy overwhelming urge to drink admire have done Christ- “pause” in global warming since 1998. the growth of radish roots, while ibu- ous weather agencies around the world Williams stu! was a bit Scotch and hold my dinner mas music, including John The researchers say that while a 16- profen had a strong influence on the have issued conflicting El Niño fore- year period is too brief to draw conclu- early root development of lettuce. casts over the past few months, but weird. Take his jazzy classic, jacket over my right shoul- Lennon, The Kinks, Bruce sions about trends, they found that JMA meteorologist Ikuo Yoshikawa “Happy Holiday.” You might der. I stop short of calling Springsteen and many warming continued at most locations Deadly Typhoon said on Dec. 10 that it emerged be- not recognize the name, woman dames and broads, others. on the planet during those years. But One of the year’s strongest tween June and August. they concluded that the overall global but trust me you know this though. Even Billy Idol could tropical cyclones cut a path Big City Custodians song. Anyone over the age of Then this strange stanza rework his biggest hit, warming was offset by strong cooling of destruction across central during the winter months in the North- and northern parts of the A new study finds that 25 not raised by woodland comes along: "White Wedding." ern Hemisphere. New findings indi- Philippines, leaving at least 27 people armies of ants are keeping creatures in the wilderness “It’s the holiday season/ “It’s a nice day to shop cate that the record melt of the Arctic dead in its wake. Typhoon Hagupit New York City clean by and therefore grew up with With a whoop-de-do and again (come on)/ It’s a ice cap has been responsible for the wrecked thousands of homes in East- eating food litter left by poor radio reception has hickory dock/And don’t nice day for a...White recent colder winters in parts of North ern Samar province, where maximum the pedestrians who walk the streets of America, Asia and Europe. sustained winds of 130 mph were re- the city that never sleeps. Writing in heard this song approxi- forget to hang up your sock.” Christmas./ It’s a nice corded. The storm weakened consid- the journal Global Change Biology, a mately 7.8 billion times. I always wonder what was day to ... shop again. Lava Damage erably after it left Eastern Samar on a team of researchers reveals how ants “Happy Holiday” is a going on here. Are these OWWWWWW!” Lava from erupting Pico do slow path toward Manila. The typhoon and other arthropods on a stretch of cover of a Bing Crosby song, even the original lyrics? You know, that’s what Fogo has destroyed build- also spared parts of the Philippines just 150 blocks of median strips in who happens to be second Perhaps during the record- too many Christmas songs ings in two Cape Verde vil- devastated by Typhoon Haiyan last Manhattan can remove the equivalent lages. This is the volcano’s year. It was one of the strongest ty- of about 60,000 pounds of hot dogs or on the all-time list of most ing session Andy Williams are missing: Raw, from the first eruption in 19 years. Lava pour- phoons on record, killing more than 600,000 potato chips each year. Lead popular Christmas song su! ered a mini stroke. I can gut, rock and roll screams. ing into Portela destroyed two church- 6,000 people. researcher Elsa Youngsteadt from singers. Although his one image the record producer Instead we get too much es and inflicted heavy damage to doz- North Carolina State University says mega-hit, “White Christ- looking at the sound guy whoop-de-do and hickory ens of homes, a hotel and a school. Earthquakes the insects are helping New Yorkers by competing with rats for food. “You mas,” makes him seem like a and saying, “Keep recording. dock for my tastes. The nearby town of Bangaeira later A few items were knocked suffered lava damage to multiple off shelves when a 6.6 may not like ants, but you probably bigger Christmas-song deal He’s singing gibberish now, apartment buildings as well as a guest- magnitude quake struck like rats even less,” she told The New than he is. but at least it’s in tune.” —Lee lives in Medway. house. More than 3,000 people have parts of Panama and neigh- York Times. fled their homes since the volcano first boring Costa Rica. It was the strongest But back to “Happy Besides Michael Buble, Email him at lee.online@ Distributed by: Universal Uclick Holiday,” an early stanza Williams has always had verizon.net. began rumbling on Nov. 22, off the of three tremors to occur there in a www.earthweek.com coast of West Africa. three-day period. © MMXIV Earth Environment Service