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The state should use its regulatory authority to crack down on questionable new health construction projects, and focus instead on expanding the corps of primary-care doctors. |
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The State Department has mobilized a corps of civilians who can quickly assist in restoring order in crisis situations, and Congress and the next president should give the initiative the funding it needs. |
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TODAY'S GLOBE EDITORIALS
Town hall of mirrors
THE TOWN HALL format of last night's debate in Nashville did not keep Senators John McCain and Barack Obama from repeating points they had made in their first go-round in Mississippi, but it did bring out clarifying differences in their views. Obama said flat out that he believes healthcare is a "right" of Americans and not a "responsibility," as McCain ... (Boston Globe)
Sneezing on the world
IT HAS long been said that if the American economy sneezes, the rest of the world gets pneumonia. To escape from this syndrome, some foreign leaders have warned against becoming too intertwined with American financial vehicles and markets. But now that the credit contraction US financial firms have provoked is infecting economies around the world, even foreign leaders hostile to ... (Boston Globe)
It's the stupid economy
WALL STREET and Washington have been awash in numbers since the financial crisis began, but the one that best measures its severity is not 700 billion - it's 159,000. That is the number of jobs lost during September. (Boston Globe)
Short Fuse
Details: To protect and serve self-interest Wrongheaded off-duty police protesters, including one who drove the wrong way down a Woburn street yesterday, are not gaining any traction with the public. An estimated $7 million is wasted each year because of paid police details for minor road work that doesn't require their presence. The Patrick administration had the gumption to use ... (Boston Globe)
TODAY'S LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
- Shock of recognition in 'feisty' Palin
- Medical records and partisan politics
- Boston Fed pushed fiscal common sense
- In Justice Dept. probe, AG must not blink
- The engine that powers young minds
- Students are not widgets
TODAY'S OP-ED COLUMNS
Putting some honesty in Roe v. Wade debate
AMONG THE various issues in the presidential campaign, one misleading charge is that John McCain, by promising to appoint strict-constructionist judges who might overturn Roe v. Wade, threatens to undermine an established Constitutional "consensus," with supposedly devastating results for the nation. (By David Lewis Schaefer, Boston Globe)
Now who doesn't get it?
NOW WE UNDERSTAND, even if John McCain does not. With sweeping analyses of Iraq, health insurance, and the economy, Barack Obama swept McCain into a political box in last night's second presidential debate, a box that President Bush built. (By Derrick Z. Jackson, Globe Columnist)
Obama's 180 on genocide
JOHN MCCAIN'S opening words last night were: "Senator Obama, it's good to be with you at a town hall meeting!" Indeed it was. We now know why Barack Obama declined McCain's invitation earlier this year to appear together in a series of 10 town hall meetings around the country. This is the format in which McCain excels, and he excelled ... (By Jeff Jacoby, Globe Columnist)
McCain without a knockout
LAST NIGHT, John McCain was like a plodding fighter behind on points who knew he had to score, and so he pursued Barack Obama for much of the night. (By Scot Lehigh, Globe Columnist)
Two children, one winner
VOTERS WANT a grown-up in the White House more than they want a maverick or a great speechmaker. (By Joan Vennochi, Globe Columnist)
The end of the 'any breathing borrower' era
BEGINNING in 1933 with deposit insurance, the federal government has corralled banks with regulations and regulators. Today the Comptroller of the Currency, the Office of Thrift Supervision, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation stand guard. With the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977, the government set more strictures - banks must lend in communities where they accept deposits. People of modest ... (By Nicolas P. Retsinas, Boston Globe)
Biofuels and a dwindling water supply
AT LAST, many of the world's political leaders have begun to realize that diverting land and food crops to produce biofuels leads to higher food prices. But an equally important consequence of this policy folly is being largely ignored in the public and political debate: Producing biofuels will further deplete the world's already overtaxed water supply. (By Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, Boston Globe)