Between the Lines: A Voice for the Neighborhoods

When I asked Carol Lewis-Caulton to name her proudest moment from the two years she served on the Springfield City Council, I wondered if she'd choose one of the higher-profile issues she'd been involved in. Her work to make the Springfield Library and Museums...

Letters: What Do You Think?

Push the Single-Payer BillAs our health care crisis only deepens, as more and more of our money goes to rapacious insurance companies (who believe in redistribution of wealth only insofar as all of it goes to them), it is clear that only some form of a single-payer...

The World This Week: This Living Fear

Though I would like to think my country was better than this, it's clear that many Americans hate President Barack Obama for the color of his skin. Many more—though there's some overlap—hate him for being a "socialist" or...
In Your Face

In Your Face

In case you haven't noticed, 3D movies are making a comeback. Again.Since the start of the year, at least 14 new 3D movies have been slated for release from all the major Hollywood studios. It seemed that every week during the summer a new stereoscopic feature hit...

Letters: What Do You Think?

Bis in the ERTo Alan Bisbort: I've been meaning to write for months now to say how much I enjoy reading your column every week. You have such a great way of distilling all the rhetoric around us into a cogent point accessible to any reasonable person of any...