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Plastics Not All Bad I read your article on alternatives to plastics (“Back to Basics,” May 6, 2010) with interest. I agree that there are problems with the use of plastics, but like with so many other things in life, plastics have their positive and...Imperium Watch: Let Big Wheels Pull the Wagon
It’s an interesting paradox in a day when “socialism” has become a scare word: back in 1955, when Joe McCarthy, the Red Scare and blacklisting still hadn’t gone cold as news, the top 400 earners in America had to pay 51.2 percent of their...
Library Consolidation, No!
As a writer and a home-schooling parent, Liz Castro knows as well as anyone just how valuable public libraries are. Castro and her family make regular trips to tiny Belding Memorial Library, in their hometown of Ashfield; when they need a bigger selection to choose...Bailing Out Boston
Last month, as state Rep. John Scibak (D-South Hadley) fought to get included in the House budget an amendment to preserve the Western Mass. Regional Library System, he was surprised by the resistance he encountered from colleagues from the Boston area, he said. That...E-Edition
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