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If the cover of “Sacred Trust,” created by editorial cartoonist Mike Marland, doesn’t clue you in, it won’t take long to realize that this novel is written as a vicarious
homage to New Hampshire’s own ongoing battle over the controversial
“Northern Pass” project and other similar projects.
When Save the Children hired Gerald Anderson in 2013, the global charity believed it was hiring a veteran humanitarian executive with a sterling resume. Anderson had spent more than 15 years working around the world for the American Red Cross, rising through the ranks to lead the group’s massive relief effort after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. After that, the Red Cross made him head of its half-billion-dollar response to the 2010 Haiti earthquake.
The safety group ranked 13 other states– Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri, Ohio, Virginia, Florida, Vermont and New Hampshire — at the bottom.
IBEW Local 4 business manager Brian Murphy accused the Conservation Law Foundation of blasting Northern Pass in a full-page ad in Sunday’s Boston Globe because it has a “financial partnership” with TDI, a competing project bidding for the Mass. Clean Energy contract. CLF denied the allegation.
Today the state’s two business taxes — business profits and business enterprise — are the single largest source of revenue for state government, accounting for about one-quarter of all general and education fund dollars.
In a full-page ad in the Boston Globe on Sunday, the Conservation Law Foundation told Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker that the proposed Northern Pass project should be disqualified from the Mass. Clean Energy RFP aimed at reducing carbon emissions because it lied in its bid.
Now, Alexander Torshin, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, has reemerged as a potentially important figure in special prosecutor Robert Mueller’s inquiry into suspected Russian support for the campaign of President Donald Trump.
ProPublica: In our Nonprofit Explorer, you can search IRS data released since 2013 and access over 9.6 million tax documents filed by nonprofits around the country as far back as 2001. We’ve also made available summaries of 3 million tax returns, which include such financial details as an organization’s executive compensation, revenue and expenses.
In the early 1970s, a Johnson & Johnson official posed a question that haunts the company today. If Johnson’s Baby Powder contained asbestos at a level of, say, 1 percent, how much of the cancer-causing substance would a baby inhale when dusted with the powder?