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12/05/2008

Editorial: Gates stays at Pentagon
President-elect Obama’s decision to ask current Secretary of Defense Robert Gates to stay on at the Pentagon makes plenty of sense. Critics of Bush administration policies (led, of course, by Mr. Obama himself) have no more reason for frustration at this choice than right-wingers have for jubilation.

Editorial: Newport: Cute and tacky
It’s an honor that Newport made it onto National Geographic Traveler’s list of the top 109 historic places to visit in the world. At the same time, we’re surprised that the City by the Sea ranked 78, behind such far less historically spectacular American cities as Red Wing, Minn. (23) and Lowell, Mass. (70).

12/04/2008

Editorial: Rubin: Greedy, underworked
The arrogance and self-dealing of some members of the Wall Street-Washington complex is crystallized in Clinton administration Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin.

Editorial: ‘Non-state actors’
The murderous three-day assault on India’s financial and entertainment capital of Mumbai (formerly Bombay), in which about 200 people were killed, points to the extreme danger posed by Pakistan. That nation is a frighteningly unstable nuclear power that functions less like a country than “chaos with a parliament,” in the memorable phrase of military analyst/columnist Ralph Peters.

Editorial: Not too big to please
The opposite of “too big to fail” is the Liberty Elm Diner, in Providence’s South Side neighborhood. Some big corporations may not be all that they’re cracked up to be. But the Liberty Elm Diner is.

12/03/2008

Editorial: Citizens back in charge
Rhode Island’s citizenry won a major, precedent-setting victory in court the other day. Superior Court Judge Bennett Gallo ruled that there are basic management rights that simply cannot be negotiated away to the teachers unions.

12/02/2008

Editorial: Farmed-salmon success
Maine’s farmed-salmon industry is making a comeback at Cooke Aquaculture’s salmon cage, on Cobscook Bay, and that’s a good omen for New England’s aquaculture sector. The company, AP’s Jerry Harkavy reports, plans to open a now idle processing plant next year.

Editorial: The Clinton nomination
President-elect Obama’s selection of Hillary Clinton as secretary of state has aroused much guessing about his motives in the choice. We would bypass the political explanations. The two senators were steadfast rivals during the race for the Democratic nomination, and some of the rhetoric was sharp. But that was election-year politics. Once the contest was decided, the acrimony receded. Now that Mr. Obama has been elected president by a comfortable margin, he has little reason to court the New York senator and her ardent supporters.

12/01/2008

Editorial: Bad news for Chavez
Venezuela gave backers of democracy good news in its election last week. As the price of oil has plunged since late summer, so has the ability of semi-dictator Huge Chavez to control events in that petro-state. With economic distress rising, the narcissistic (even by celebrity standards) leader’s wings have surely been clipped.

Editorial: Colleges in the crash
The New England Board of Higher Education’s conference next Friday at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, “Higher Education in a Troubled Economy: How New England’s Colleges and Universities Can Survive the Downturn and Prepare to Thrive,” is very timely, what with tanking endowments and surging tuitions.

11/30/2008

Editorial: Running tighter ships
It has taken a long time, but Rhode Island leaders — confronting massive budget deficits — are beginning to “think outside the box” about slashing costs.

Editorial: Can I keep the jet?
One reason that many Americans have resisted the bank bailouts is fear that the top brass would help themselves to large pay packages at taxpayers’ expense. Thus it was something of a help recently when the executives of Goldman Sachs said that this year, they would forgo their usual hefty bonuses. Goldman Sachs was one of the initial nine companies to get capital infusions from the Treasury Department. The gesture by its leaders should pressure others to follow suit.

Editorial: India mayhem
We don’t know precisely who was behind the attacks in Mumbai and what all their aims were. Why do intelligence services have so little information about the perpetrators?