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From “The Old Neighbors,’’ by Katha Pollitt (1949), American poet and essayist   “I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there.’’ -- Fred Allen (1894-1956), Massachusetts-born humorist best known for his work in the Golden Age of Radio     View Larger + The 2020 U.S. Census figures, in general, weren’t surprising. Population growth slowed to 7.4 percent in the stretch since 2010, the lowest since the Great Depression, when the population only rose 7.3 percent. The Sunbelt continued to draw many new residents, though not as fast as...

  But seeming to bill people living now specifically because of the offenses of others, most of them long dead, could widen racial discord. And there’s no end to where you can go with history’s crimes.  (Seek reparations from the descendants of African tribal chiefs who kidnapped people and sold them to Western slave traders?)    I would guess that most white Americans do not feel guilty about what some of their ancestors may have done against Black people, much as they regret the history. To create a “reparations’’ system would embitter many of them. And beware of extreme “id...

From “Spite Fence,’’ by Richard Eberhart (1904-2005), a New Hampshire-based poet   “They must be out of their minds.’’ --  Prince Philip (born 1921), in the Solomon Islands in 1982, after he was told that the annual population growth there was 5 percent. The prince, aka the Duke of Edinburgh, who died on April 9, was famous for “outrageous” remarks, some of which were very funny – to some of us.   Encouraging the Anti-Vaxxers The decision to “pause’’ the Johnson & Johnson one-shot COVID-19 vaccine is unfortunate. After all, only a minuscule number of people (six out...

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Map: Vineyard Wind It looks as if the huge Vineyard Wind project will start operating about 15 miles south of Martha’s Vineyard by late  2023, now that the Biden administration is close to giving it the final thumbs-up, though there still could be last-minute hitches. (The Trump regime much preferred power plants powered by fossil fuel and seemed  to oppose the project.) All such big projects swim in politically tinged controversies and tangles of interest groups.   The wind farm would include 62 giant Boston-based General Electric turbines in the project’s first, 400-megawatt phase. �...