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From Waiter to Guest at Nantucket’s Grande Dame Hotel

Baua Electric

One muggy August night, I sent the six lobster dinners ordered by Francis Sargent, the governor of Massachusetts and his guests crashing to the floor when some butter on the heel of my hand propelled my tray off the stand I’d been kneeling to set it down on. Never cheap, Nantucket has become a vertiginously expensive destination.

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

Green Car Congress

Markey of Massachusetts, both Democrats, built their climate change bill last year in large measure around it. It covers ten Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states (Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont). Representatives Henry A. Supplementarity.

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