| Genzyme comes up with cure
Genzyme Corp., one of the state's largest biotech companies, said it has resolved a sticky problem with Framingham's sewage system, allowing the Cambridge company to go ahead with plans to build a $260 million drug manufacturing plant there. The biotech warned late last year that it might be forced to build the plant in another town or state, because Framingham's aging sewage and water system would not be able to handle the added load from Genzyme's facility without a $12.9 million upgrade. Though Framingham and Massachusetts officials both promised to work to secure state funding for the project, company executives said they couldn't afford to wait much longer for the state to make a commitment. And even if the funding eventually came through, Genzyme managers fretted the sewage project wouldn't be finished by the time the manufacturing plant was ready to open in 2010, prompting them to begin considering alternative sites.
The Conservative Minority
Still, that Romney is outpolling McCain among self-identified conservatives is a consistent trend. We've seen it time and again in the exit polls. John Hinderaker asserts that, "as the primary season draws to a close, most conservatives are coalescing around Mitt Romney." Bill Quick believes we are now engaged in "the War for the GOP" with the "GOP establishment attempting to remake the party in its preferred liberal-conservative image - an image in which the 'conservative' part is mostly window dressing for the suckers. Republicans Voting for McCain, Not Romney Yet, for reasons Eric Kleefeld lays out nicely, McCain is likely to emerge Tuesday night as the prohibitive favorite to win the Republican nomination. AllahPundit, who strongly prefers Romney but maintains a realistic outlook, concurs.
Let a little hydrangea be planted in New Orleans
It's only a week and a half before Mardi Gras, and Carnival reigns in New Orleans. On Bourbon Street it's beer and booze and blaring music and Mardi Gras beads. Human statues hold their poses on almost every corner, and girls go wild on balconies. Parades appear out of nowhere; so do mounted police, their huge horses maintaining crowd control by size alone.
I'm in the French Quarter of the Paris of the New World, the town also known as the Big Easy, where a street kid named Louis Armstrong once searched garbage cans for food and now the airport is named for him. Where Fats Domino and Harry Connick Jr. and Wynton Marsalis and Al Hirt marched to their own music. Where Tennessee Williams started writing a play named for a streetcar.
Actually, I'm not here to revel but to attend a board meeting of the Garden Writers Association.
Ken Chambers Blog
I just never have caught any real numbers of the little green fish. And I never caught one that would even make a scale bounce. I went bass fishing with Buzz and Kevin Merritt along Alligator Alley today. The alley is the local name for Interstate 75 between Naples and Miami. Countless alligators can be found along the canals on each side of the highway. Sorry to state the obvious there, but you never know. Kevin and his dad, Buzz, could possibly win any father/son one liner competition. They made me want to pee all day with their back-and-forth banter. They also know their bass fishing. Frankly, Buzz carries more plastic baits than Bass Pro Shops. He has every color in the spectrum and then some. Colors like Mud Puppy, Blond Pony, and Carolina Gravy; weird, I know.
MSG and Aspartame - A Personal Story
There is a bill being considered at the Hawaii State Legislature that would ban aspartame. This will come to a vote on Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2008. It doesn't look good. Quoting an email from Dr. Betty Martini: "Although Rep. Josh Green sympathized with supporters who have been affected by the artificial sweetener aspartame, he was unable to immediately pass a bill that would ban the artificial sweetener aspartame in food products without concrete evidence showing a connection between aspartame and medical ailments. We can't take numerous amounts of products off Hawaii store shelves without evidence of a connection, he said." I’ve been a television news reporter for 34 years and I have won the Hawaii Medical Association Distinguished Medical Reporting Award five times.
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