by Heather Brandon | Feb 20, 2007 | Urban Compass
An independent auditor’s report (PDF) of the city’s finances during fiscal year 2006 was recently made available by the Springfield Finance Control Board. Titled unassumingly, "Report on Examination of Basic Financial Statements," the report was...
by Heather Brandon | Feb 21, 2007 | Urban Compass
"The Invisible Soldiers: Unheard Voices," a 2000 documentary film about the service of African-American soldiers in World War II, will be screened for the public for free tonight, 7:00 pm, at Springfield College’s Appleton Auditorium in the Fuller Arts...
by Heather Brandon | Feb 22, 2007 | Urban Compass
The Urban Land Institute sure has kept us waiting. Initially expected to release its detailed written recommendations 90 days after a panel’s late September visitwhich would put it right at the holidaysthe ULI pushed the release back to early...
by Heather Brandon | Feb 23, 2007 | Urban Compass
While the city adjusts to the firing ousting resignation of mayoral chief of staff Michele Webber late yesterday, in a fiasco initially reported by ABC40, and now picked up by the Associated Press and spreading across the wires, I’m reflecting on an editorial in...
by Heather Brandon | Feb 26, 2007 | Urban Compass
Urban Compass reader Chris Eaton, who lives in Lexington after several years in the Pacific northwest, and is the consultant behind Springfield’s zoning ordinance revision project, wrote to share some ideas about neighborhood empowerment stemming from work in...