Ramping Up the Rhetoric

Ramping Up the Rhetoric

by | Oct 9, 2008 | News

The last time a meeting of the Citizens Advisory Committee (CAC) adjourned, back in June, there was still a glimmer of hope that the development on Northampton's Hospital Hill would contain some element that might serve the public.The CAC has been overseeing the...
Trash Is Good

Trash Is Good

by | Oct 9, 2008 | News

Northampton Mayor Clare Higgins has been a strong advocate for the controversial expansion of the city's regional landfill on Glendale Road—or, at least, an advocate for preserving the option. Over the past 10 years, her administration has carefully...
Holy Reflection

Holy Reflection

by | Oct 9, 2008 | News

Life is uncertain in America these days. Everything has been called into question: our sons and daughters are dying in a war that we all know is wrong; the foundations of our financial system are crumbling; our leaders are corrupt and global warming threatens us with...

Unthinkable–Or Not?

by | Oct 9, 2008 | News

"Our nuclear weaponry here in the U.S. is used as a deterrent. And that's a safe, stable way to use nuclear weaponry." Those were the words of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin in the vice-presidential debate on October 2. Safe. Stable. Those are not words...

What Do You Think?

by | Oct 9, 2008 | News

Mass AG Takes On NRC In an attempt to make the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board address the issues of safe storage for spent nuclear fuel, and the unthinkable possibilities of an "accident" or a...