New Boss, Old Boss
When Rick Sullivan, the former mayor of Westfield, became the new secretary of the Mass. Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, opponents of a power plant proposed in Springfield hoped the new hire might be good news for their cause. Critics of the...ImperiumWatch: It Can Happen Here
As public employees in Wisconsin and other states fight to hang on to collective bargaining rights, a bill to reduce those rights for public employees has been filed by Republicans in the Massachusetts Legislature. The Massachusetts bill doesn’t go as far as the...
Taking On Monsanto
In 2001, the Monsanto corporation sued a 70-year-old farmer from Saskatchewan, Canada, named Percy Schmeiser for violating its patent on an herbicide-resistant canola seed the company had developed. Monsanto’s suit alleged that Schmeiser had knowingly planted...
Brewers Brewing
When I arrived at Berkshire Brewing in South Deerfield to take co-owner Gary Bogoff’s photograph for this year’s edition of the Best of the Valley, I hadn’t initially realized I was interrupting him in the middle of some delicate, exacting work....E-Edition
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