September 2016 - NewBostonPost

Guv, lawmakers team up to name bridge in honor of Big Papi

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BOSTON, SEPT. 29. 2016……As the Red Sox make their way into the postseason as division champions, fans making their way to Fenway Park could soon be doing so by walking across the David Ortiz ‘Big Papi’ Bridge. Legislation attached to a spending bill now before the state House of Representatives would rename the Boston bridge......

How trade and immigration are colliding with our two-party system

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This year, much interest is focused on what The Economist calls drawbridge politics. Voters who believe in leaving the drawbridge down, so to speak, see opportunities in open borders for immigrants and trade. Voters who believe in pulling the drawbridge up see these as threats. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton at the first presidential debate.......

What happened to Occupy Boston?

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  Five years ago, on September 30, “Occupy Boston” first pillaged Dewey Square. For 72 days its participants appeared to be darlings of left-leaning media and left-leaning office holders until the lawless occupation of public space was finally dismantled. Today, remarkably, the Occupy movement is a fast fading memory, its professed “cause” aimless and irrelevant.......

Boston environmental law group sues Exxon over climate change

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BOSTON — A Boston-based environmental group is joining Attorney General Maura Healey in putting the climate change screws to oil giant ExxonMobil, alleging in a 70-page federal lawsuit filed Thursday that the company is well-aware of the effects of global warming but has done nothing to protect its Mystic River facility to guard against rising......

Congo in chaos: Why the US must act

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At a soccer match on Sept. 4, 2016, the Democratic Republic of Congo beat the Central African Republic 4-1. Yet the mostly Congolese audience at Kinshasa’ soccer stadium, the largest in Africa, had something else on its mind. Around 80,000 people broke out in chants of “Kabila must go.”...

The NFL joins the data revolution in sports

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In some potentially game-changing news for the way we understand professional football, the National Football League began the 2016 preseason by placing tracking sensors in its footballs for the first time. The chips are also in balls used in Thursday night games. Over the past decade, we’ve seen an explosion in data analytics in sports,......

Why the pundits are wrong about the debate

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The vast majority of pundits declared Hillary Clinton the decisive winner of this week’s debate. This includes both conservative and liberal pundits. For instance, Douglas Schoen of Fox News wrote: “She was ready for all of his quips with a litany of detail that may have bored the viewer at points, but showed why she......

This is what a conservative looks like at Harvard

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Before college, I had never really been challenged in my political beliefs. I grew up on the shoreline of Connecticut and went to Catholic school there for fourteen years. In that environment, most of the people I interacted with agreed with me morally and politically, at least on most of the issues that I knew......

FLASHBACK: Hillary voted for border fence

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Thursday marks the ten-year anniversary of the day Hillary Clinton voted in favor of building a 700-mile fence along the Mexican border, intended to stop illegal immigration. The Secure Fence Act of 2006’s stated purpose was to check the flow of illegal immigrants, drugs, and other illegal goods into the U.S. by erecting a double-layer fence......

Broken promises at nonprofit run by Kerry’s daughter

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A nonprofit created and led by Secretary of State John Kerry’s daughter failed to deliver on promises made in government contracts and was subsequently awarded millions of Department of State dollars, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned. Dr. Vanessa Kerry’s nonprofit – called Seed Global Health – pledged to send 90 volunteer doctors and nurses......

Brown University railroaded student accused of rape, judge rules

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PROVIDENCE — A federal judge ruled in favor of a former Brown University student Wednesday, saying the student was wrongly suspended from school for an alleged sexual assault without receiving due process. In the process, he also aggressively chastised Brown University students for harassing him with “ignorant” emails attempting to make him rule the other way. Earlier......