Finally a journalist has placed the Goldman Sachs’s public flogging yesterday in perspective. Alain Sherter in his BNET column correctly points out that Congress, including Sen. Carl Levin, chairman of the subcommittee that pummeled Goldman, should have first confessed their sins in the financial crisis that came close to a global meltdown. It was...
Conn Attorney General Richard Blumenthal today asked Connecticut Light & Power to disclose how many other cases there have been where the wrong house had its power shut off for failing to pay electric bills. The request came after CtWatchdog disclosed yesterday that CL&P mistakenly turned off power to a Farmington homeowner when it...
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal and Department of Social Services (DSS) Commissioner Michael P. Starkowski announced that Connecticut will receive $3.15 million under an agreement in principle with AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP for alleged off-label marketing of Seroquel, and antipsychotic drug, for uses unapproved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). AstraZeneca will pay the...
Rattling around northern France on various trips, as much as I would enjoy the great culture and astonishing natural beauty I was drawn, too, to the many battlefields there, to me haunted places, sites of such horrid valor and mad history. Normandy. The Somme. Verdun. Caen. Amiens. It is a truly humbling experience. I...
