Insurance claims for tornadoes hit $140m (By Vivian Yee, Globe Correspondent)
2 centers open to aid victims of tornadoes with recovering (By Travis Andersen, Globe Staff)
MONSON 7 missing cats found alive after tornadoes (Boston Globe)
Obama OK's tornado damage aid for Massachusetts (By Donovan Slack and Travis Andersen, Globe Staff)
"Another victim of twister dies
JOPLIN — The death toll here has risen to 154 people with the death of a man injured in last month’s tornado. The city’s spokeswoman, Lynn Onstot, identified the victim as James Cookerly but she had no details about where or when he died. The death total from the May 22 tornado had stood at 153 since Monday, when city officials reported two more fatalities. It is the nation’s deadliest single tornado in more than six decades."
YARMOUTH Reward offered in killing of seals on Cape (Boston Globe)
Related: No Suspects in Seal Shootings
"Arlington teacher’s aide dies after collapse in classroom; Middle school plans counseling today for students" June 18, 2011|By Jaclyn Reiss, Globe Correspondent
Paul DiGiovanni, a special education teacher assistant at Ottoson Middle School in Arlington, died yesterday after collapsing in the classroom in front of students.
Trained staff attempted to revive DiGiovanni. He was then rushed to Lahey Clinic, where medical staff tried to resuscitate him to no avail....
Cindy Wells, mother of two middle-schoolers, described her daughter Mirabela’s reaction in an e-mail. Her daughter spent at least four classes per day with DiGiovanni.
“My daughter is very upset about ‘Mr. D,’ ’’ Wells wrote. “She said he was her favorite aide, because he was so nice and helpful. She said that he had told her just about a week ago that ‘I’ll be here long after you are all graduated and you can come back and visit me.’ ’’
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"More than a third of the most serious criminal offenders paroled in Massachusetts over the past five years were returned to prison for committing new crimes or violating the conditions of their release, a Globe review has found, raising questions about the public risk posed by granting early release to scores of convicted murderers, as well as the state’s ability to supervise violent criminals on parole....
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Also see:
- BOSTON Costs drove health bills up, state says (Boston Globe)
- BOSTON Sexual education website is revised (Associated Press)
- MARBLEHEAD Town approves a $43 million tax override (Boston Globe)
- BOSTON East Boston man sentenced in brawl (Boston Globe)
- ATTLEBORO Middle school student faces rape charge (Boston Globe)
- Boston Information sought after man fatally shot (Boston Globe)
- STERLING I-190 crash results in serious injuries (Boston Globe)
- LENOX Sculpture series planned for Tanglewood (Associated Press)
- Advocates fight nursing home cuts (By Kay Lazar, Globe Staff)
- District attorney finds trooper's Ashby fatal shooting justified (By Ben Wolford, Globe Correspondent)
- Roll-back sought for ban on free meals for doctors (By Chelsea Conaboy, Globe Staff)
- Two Mass. doctors disciplined; one had 2 patients die (By Liz Kowalczyk, Globe Staff)
- MWRA sues to recover costs of water main break (By Beth Daley, Globe Staff)
- Pilot missing since WWII laid to rest (By Matt Byrne, Globe Correspondent)
"N.H. closing in on a repeal of union dues rule; Veto override would make it a ‘right-to-work’ state" by Shira Schoenberg, Globe Correspondent / June 18, 2011
New Hampshire’s Legislature could make the state the first in New England to outlaw compulsory union dues this week. While that outcome is far from certain, the state’s Republican Party has been pushing hard for a so-called “right-to-work’’ law as a way to improve the state’s business climate.
“If we become a right-to-work state, you would have a lot more business moving here,’’ said New Hampshire Republican Party Chairman Jack Kimball, who has challenged GOP presidential candidates to take a stance on right-to-work. “If you’re about being probusiness, it is an issue you should be behind.’’
But business leaders in Massachusetts do not seem worried that New Hampshire, which already has lower taxes, will draw companies away....
In the United States, 11.9 percent of workers — about 14.7 million — belong to a union, according to 2010 figures from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. Another 1.6 million people are not union members but hold jobs covered by union contracts. In New Hampshire, 10.2 percent of workers are unionized.
That's odd; my printed paper begins the paragraph with "Only 11.9 percent of American workers --"
Only must be a bad word in the paper, unlike but, still, etc, etc.
It's a subtle rewrite, but it begs the question WHY?
And speaking of buts, they lopped that off the front of this:
The issue provokes passionate arguments on both sides. Supporters say right-to-work states are more attractive to businesses and better for workers....
Opponents say right-to-work laws result in lower wages and fewer union protections....
Right-to-work laws are “more about attempted destruction of the workers’ voice in the workplace, promoting a race to the economic bottom for the middle class,’’ said Dave Lang, president of the Professional Fire Fighters of New Hampshire....
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Related: Labor Has Lost in Wisconsin
The war's over, labor lost.
Also see:
- CONCORD, N.H. Mass. man set himself on fire, officials say (Boston Globe)
- Vermont wind project seeks new deadlines (By Dave Gram, Associated Press)
- Maine general fund, highway budgets approved (By Glen Adams, Associated Press)
- BANGOR Defendant to face murder charge (Associated Press)
- FARMINGTON, Maine Strawberry season back on schedule (Associated Press)
- R.I. education board questions charter school plan (By Ian MacDougal, Associated Press)
- Mass. immigrant advocates applaud Conn. tuition law (By Kyle Cheney, State House News Service)
- PROVIDENCE Man found shot to death in parking lot (Associated Press)
- PROVIDENCE Representative to pay R.I. campaign fines (Associated Press)
