Article: New England: State of mind or going concern?

I may be the consummate New Englander. I grew up in New Hampshire, learned to ski in Vermont, went to school in Massachusetts, taught city kids in Connecticut, played soccer in Rhode Island and raised a family in Maine. Today, I live and work in Greater Boston, where I direct a New England Public Policy Collaborative (NEPPC), which is aimed in part at encouraging the six states to work together.

Sure, I know that half the people in Connecticut don't care about the Red Sox, and that Fairfield County gravitates toward New York (one Nutmegger ended a call to her Connecticut state legislator by saying: "You people in Albany don't know what you're doing."). Yeah, I realize New Hampshire and ...

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