PVPA and Brick: To Be or Not to Be?

PVPA and Brick: To Be or Not to Be?

by | Jul 16, 2009 | News

The evening of Tuesday, June 23 saw a vast show of student, staff and parental support for Pioneer Valley Performing Arts (PVPA) High School Executive Director Robert Brick at a 6 p.m. meeting of that institution's board of trustees. The standing-room-only meeting...

Letters: What Do You Think?

by | Jul 16, 2009 | News

Unions Can Be CoerciveI'm writing in response to Ronald Rene Patenaude's letter of 25 June 2009 entitled "Nonprofits Bust Unions Too." I'm writing because there are two sides to every coin, and I represent the other side of the argument. When I...

The World This Week: Postal Going

by | Jul 16, 2009 | News

Have you noticed anything strange lately about your local post office? For years, one of the big issues in my town was the need for a larger facility to accommodate the popularity of the services offered and the SUVs of customers clogging the tiny parking lot at the...

Letters: What Do You Think?

by | Jul 16, 2009 | News

Looking Out for OthersSean F. Werle, Ph.D., states [Letters, July 9, 2009] that he has nothing against unions. Of course he has nothing against them; he has enjoyed the wages and benefits secured by a union contract without having to contribute dues or pay an agency...

The World This Week: A Tale of Two Lives

by | Jul 16, 2009 | News

Robert Strange McNamara died last week at age 93. The front-page headline attached to the New York Times obituary (superbly written by Tim Weiner) identified him simply as "Architect of Futile War." That "futile war" was, of course, Vietnam, the...