Word: commonwealth
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...looking for something that explains the origins of Boxing Day, well, you're not going to find it here. The day-after-Christmas holiday is celebrated by most countries in the Commonwealth, but in a what-were-we-doing-again? bout of amnesia, none of them are really sure what they're celebrating, when it started...
Since the program—financed through surcharges on utilities and electricity usage—was met with such overwhelming demand, Massachusetts officials are preparing a new plan that is expected to be available on Jan. 1. This successor project, dubbed Commonwealth Solar, is the preliminary phase of the clean energy initiative—championed by Gov. Deval Patrick ’78—geared toward achieving 250 megawatts of solar-generating capacity in Massachusetts...
...approximately 2 1/2 football fields long—is in development for the rooftop of The Arsenal, the largest building at the Harvard-owned Watertown office complex. Harvey added that this project would not have gone forward without the $1.1 million grant from the state’s Commonwealth Solar rebate program...
...promise to you as governor is to strengthen the free-enterprise system, to create more jobs and opportunity so that every Virginian can use their God-given talents to pursue the American dream and liberty here in this great commonwealth." - At a rally shortly after winner the governor's race (Washington Post...
This grant follows other Recovery Act investments right here in Massachusetts that will help create clean energy jobs in this commonwealth and across the country. And this only builds on the work of your governor, who has endeavored to make Massachusetts a clean energy leader -- from increasing the supply of renewable electricity, to quadrupling solar capacity, to tripling the commonwealth's investment in energy efficiency, all of which helps to draw new jobs and new industries. (Applause.) That's worth applause...