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Speaker of the House Paul Ryan will be leaving Congress soon, surely to glide into a Wall Street sinecure where his extraordinary service to America’s overclass can be properly rewarded. But before he goes, Ryan has some legacy-polishing to do.
Ryan’...
DATE: Dec 21, 2018
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Paul Waldman
After the Premier’s question period last Friday in Parliament, David Burt was forced to take the seldom used “Personal Explanation” period during the next sitting on Monday to correct a misleading answer to a question I put to him.
During the questio...
DATE: Dec 20, 2018
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Michael Dunkley
In reviewing the treatment that the Government, Ascendant Group and the Regulatory Authority of Bermuda have offered the retail solar panel installer to date, we think it is important for the public to be aware of the history so that clear decisions ...
DATE: Dec 20, 2018
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Taking a courageous stand on a fundamental principle that has global implications is challenging for most people, let alone a 15-year-old girl. These past two weeks during the United Nations’ Annual Climate Change Conference, many international media...
DATE: Dec 19, 2018
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Glenn Fubler
For centuries, Bermudians have been independent, innovative and resilient in our use of renewable resources. Although many of us take it for granted, our rainwater collection system is a model for the rest of the world on how to gather and use a scar...
DATE: Dec 19, 2018
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It is sometimes good to look beyond the shores of our tiny island to gain some perspective on important issues such as energy.
The excellent article in the Deloitte Insight titled Global Renewable Energy Trends — Solar and Wind Move from Mainstream...
DATE: Dec 17, 2018
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Humiliated. That’s how Stephen Benson felt as a teenager standing in Union Station, wondering how he ended up in handcuffs.
An officer had run up to him and a friend, and yelled: “Up against the wall!”
Benson thought he might be talking about a since...
DATE: Dec 17, 2018
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Theresa Vargas
On December 8, the Fiscal Responsibility Panel’s 2018 report was published. The executive summary said: “A precondition for faster growth is to increase the island’s workforce. It is the only realistic counter to the island’s demographic challenge fr...
DATE: Dec 14, 2018
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In December 1967, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference announced the “Poor People’s Campaign” to demand basic economic and human rights, especially for people living in poverty. That campaign, led by Ral...
DATE: Dec 13, 2018
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It always seemed ludicrous for British Prime Minister Theresa May to hold a vote she was set to lose by a large margin. And yet her decision to delay it brought not relief, but confusion and dismay.
May was jeered almost as soon as she opened her mou...
DATE: Dec 12, 2018
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