A Win-Win for the GOP

by | Aug 11, 2011 | News

You know the best way to shrink the deficit? Get Americans to work. When people have paychecks, they pay taxes. Yet, after weeks of hysteria in D.C. over the debt ceiling, the two political parties have done nothing that would actually get people back to work....

Letters: What Do You Think?

by | Aug 11, 2011 | News

Double Edge’s Odyssey I was pleased and gratified to read Chris Rohmann’s account of several local artists creating sets and large-scale art installations for Double Edge Theatre’s Odyssey in “Wool Sails in the Sunset,” August 4, 2011. I...

What's Wrong With Ward Representation?

by | Aug 11, 2011 | News

After years of hard work and political agitation, in 2007, reformers in Springfield achieved a sweet victory: voters approved, by a three-to-one margin, a plan to expand the City Council from its existing nine members, all elected at-large, to include eight members...
Art in Paradise: Before the Jumpsuits

Art in Paradise: Before the Jumpsuits

by | Aug 11, 2011 | Music

Like him or not, Elvis Presley is integral to American culture. The course of his career is a remarkable reflection of much that is good and much that is bad about said culture—early on, he was the embodiment of cool, blasting the sensual young world of rock and...
Behind the Beat: Punk-Ass Folkasaurus

Behind the Beat: Punk-Ass Folkasaurus

by | Aug 11, 2011 | Music

Longtime Western Mass. musician Rob Skelton fancies himself more John than Paul, and it’s the former’s influence that inspires his writing and activism to this day. “Lennon had it so right when he wrote and played ‘The War is Over’ before...