In the 1980s, opposing the spread of nuclear energy was a pillar of the environmental movement. But with carbon emissions threatening to drastically change the climate within a generation, some environmentalists now say they’re open to going nuclear. And governments around the world have signaled a new willingness to invest in nuclear power plants. Also: an update of the TWU's talks with the MTA, New York's judge selection mess, and President's Week teacher talk.
Service Advisory
Ed Watt, secretary and treasurer of the Transport Workers Union Local 100
- on the TWU's response to the MTA’s request for binding arbitration
» TWU Local 100
- on the TWU's response to the MTA’s request for binding arbitration
» TWU Local 100
State Of Play
Pete Donohue, transit reporter for the Daily News
- what to expect from the MTA and the TWU
» "E-ZPATH set for test run" by Pete Donohue in the Daily News
- what to expect from the MTA and the TWU
» "E-ZPATH set for test run" by Pete Donohue in the Daily News
Benched!
Jerry Goldfeder, election lawyer and an adjunct professor of election law at Fordham University,
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Jeremy Creelan, deputy director of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law
- on how judges are selected in New York ...
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Jeremy Creelan, deputy director of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law
- on how judges are selected in New York ...
The Nuclear Option
Vijay Vaitheeswaran, environment and energy correspondent for The Economist and author, Power to the People: How the Coming Energy Revolution Will Transform an Industry, Change our Lives, and Maybe Even Save the Planet (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003),
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Randy Udall, director of the Community Office for Resource ...
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Randy Udall, director of the Community Office for Resource ...
Teacher Talk
Seth Flicker, head fourth grade teacher at the Brooklyn Friends School
- takes calls from teachers and offers tips for dealing with parents
- takes calls from teachers and offers tips for dealing with parents
Photo File: Seth Flicker
Flicker's account: the talking cure for teachers
Hatemail: Women and Movies
It's Thursday, the day we like to publish your hatemail. Today we have a particularly captivating specimen written on embossed stationery:
Required Reading: February 23, 2006
Port experts: foreign-run cargo terminals not a threat (LA Times)
Analysis: are Dubai ports critics stoking old fears of foreign ownership? (Washington Post)
Bloomberg: no cause for alarm over NY anthrax case (NY Daily News)
Manhattan clinic begins using leeches (NY Daily News)
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