By Mickey Friedman August 16, 2011 Interesting new developments from the riots across the sea. Amidst the calls to curtail the use of social media – and the arrests of a few Facebook posters and Blackberry instant messengers for incitement…
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London Calling Again & Again
By Mickey Friedman August 13, 2011 In the early summer of 2010, Bruce Springsteen came to London town and offered up a stirring version of The Clash’s “London’s Calling” to a Hyde Park filled to the brim with adoring fans.…
The Rising: A Fishable, Swimmable Rising Pond
By Mickey Friedman August 12, 2011 GE sees Rising Pond and sees a PCB dump. I see Rising Pond and I see a gem, the cornerstone of a renewed and restored Housatonic, Massachusetts. I see people fishing on the banks,…
Conflicting Ideas for the EPA Remedy Review Board
By Mickey Friedman August 5, 2011 EPA Region One officials responsible for the GE/Housatonic River site spent two days on July 27-28, 2011 presenting a cleanup plan for “The Rest of the River” to the agency’s National Remedy Review Board…
Of Red Crows, Train Crashes, and the Open Internet
Mickey Friedman July 29, 2011 New evidence of the age-old battle between open and closed, freedom and control, takes us from the U.S.A. to China and home again. The spirit of Red Crow, and a million permutations of Red Crow…
Local/Schmocal – Debt/Schmebt
By Mickey Friedman and the Red Crow Economic News Team™ July 27, 2011 Our crack Red Crow Economic News Team™ has been busily at work trying to come up with a new definition of “local.” The local debate has been…
The PCB Wars: The Commonwealth et al vs. EPA
By Mickey Friedman July 11, 2011 What do Massachusetts Congressman John Olver, Sen. Scott Brown, General Electric, and officials at the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs all have in common? Together, they’re doing their best to influence the Environmental…
Time to Take The Tourists
By Mickey Friedman July 3, 2011 Editor’s Note: We at Red Crow want to make it clear how much some of us like cats. And remind you of our Poetic License when we say there’s more than one way to…