Op Ed

Keating the right choice for healthcare workers on the Cape and South Coast

By 1199SEIU Executive Vice President Veronica Turner

Working for 1199SEIU, the largest healthcare workers union in Massachusetts, I’ve had the pleasure of meeting and acquainting myself with several elected leaders, from Barack Obama to members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and Senate. Each one of these leaders has impressed me in different ways. Congressman Bill Keating is no exception.

Romney and the Whale

Ms. Barteau contends reviewers are in the pocket of the wind industry

By Dave Kent

Last week, the Massachusetts DEP released a study that reviewed the science related to the effects of wind turbines on humans.

Tea Party name is a misnomer

"Nibbled to death by ducks"

Editor'sNote: This  piece appeared in The Cape Cod Times yesterday.
Mr. Freeman gave us permission to reprint it as an Op Ed here.

By James P. Freeman

By Christy Mihos

As a long time opponent of casino gaming, an issue that has been vetted for years, and now has passed the prevue of the Legislature and the Governor, the process is done.  The hurtful insults aimed at the leadership of the House and Senate are unfounded.

The Koch Brother's "Bait & Switch"

By Michael Bradley

Sometimes national events coalesce in a manner that enables other domestic forces to move their own political goals, and that is what has apparently happened this year as we endure an ongoing Republican Sideshow.

Ridiculed for their own amusement by customs inspectors. [Mittell #1,085]

By David A. Mittell, Jr.

After a flight from Munich two years ago, I was held up and ridiculed for their own amusement by customs inspectors at Logan Airport. Being a journalist and a child of the 1960's I had seen myself as practiced in talking back. But exhausted, only wanting to get home, and fearing that a hint of defiance would lead to hours of detention, I melted abjectly.

Earth Surface Temperature analyzed from 32,000 worldwide collection sites

By Dave Kent