Patent Science

Patent Science

The UMass system was becoming a very big player in the biosciences market even before the state and federal governments pumped in over $100 million during the last year for life science facilities for the state university. That input included $95 million for labs at...
Do You Want Casinos?

Do You Want Casinos?

Last month, Attorney General Martha Coakley ruled that a proposed 2014 ballot question that sought to make casinos illegal in Massachusetts was unconstitutional. But proponents of the question were not about to take no for an answer. The ballot initiative was the work...

Between the Lines: Corrective Action

When the federal government officially shut down just after midnight on Tuesday morning, Oct. 1, I was still awake, tossing and turning and worrying about all the things middle-class people with children to feed, clothe and educate and elderly parents to care for...

Guest Column: Sequestration and Science

The Republican Party is escalating its attack on science. We are already used to a certain level of GOP hostility toward science. It routinely denies the validity of any scientific findings that contradict its political or religious biases. Global warming?...
Splash Page

Splash Page

All Foxed Up Don’t like that your guys forced a government shutdown to avoid the looming specter of widespread health care coverage? Well, if you’re Fox News, there’s an easy solution to all that unseemliness. “Shutdown” is just so...