Former Globe Publisher Doesn't Blame The Times

Ben Taylor was the Globe's publisher from 1997 through 1999, and spoke to WBUR's Bob Oakes on Wednesday to offer his perspective on the paper's current situation. Taylor started by describing his feeling when he heard about the Times' threat to shut down the newspaper.

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Independence or Marriage?

For most of this decade about 100,000 spouses a year, mostly wives, have come to the U.S. to be with their husbands, who are on an H-1B work visa. But the wives are given an H-4 visa, which does not allow them to work. We’ll speak with Meghna Damani, who’s film about her experience as a non-working spouse is “Hearts Suspended: Losing Who You Were, Losing Who You Could Become,” and Shivali Shah, a DC-based attorney and founding member of Kiran, an organization serving battered immigrant women in North Carolina.

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Puerto Rico: Security Is MAJOR!

Security in Puerto Rico has changed alot and it's become more systematic.

I always wondered why it took flying through PR to the US Virgin
Islands, and then it hit me, it's all about the dinero.

Well, it's all good and here we go!

Virgin Islands: Flying High

Making the climb! What a view!

Virgin Islands: Mass Bound

Heading home!

Boarding a plane from Cyril E. King Airport. Puerto Rico here we come!!