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Communist Albania Was A Green New Deal Paradise, Lowell Sun Columnist Says

John Cronin

Albania under the Communists was the cleanest, greenest, and unhappiest place Lowell Sun columnist Peter Lucas had ever seen when he visited in August 1986.

The country had no cars for anyone except the rulers, and almost no airplanes.

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Weld? NoWeld’s Policies?Some, Yes

NBP Editorial Board

Bill Weld is not a serious candidate for president. Someone who preferred the Democrat to the Republican for president in 2008 and 2016 isn't a serious Republican figure. And it's hard to forget the dilettante governor getting so bored atop Massachusetts state government in 1997 that he quit mid-term in the fruitless pursuit of a lesser office.

So Weld's challenge to President Donald Trump isn't for real.

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