ImperiumWatch: Pick-and-Choose Science

by | Jul 5, 2012 | News

The North Carolina state Senate has passed a bill banning the use of updated climate change science in proposals to deal with rising sea levels along its coast. The vote comes in response to demands by NC20, a group spearheaded by real estate interests in the...

Letters: What Do You Think?

by | Jul 5, 2012 | News

Food Program Deserves Support In response to “Too Many Hungry People” (Letters, June 28, 2012), we wholeheartedly concur with the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts and applaud Sens. Kerry and Brown in voting down harmful amendments to our nation’s...

Three Perspectives

by | Jul 5, 2012 | News

No sooner had the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Affordable Care Act been released last week than our inboxes began filling up with press releases, as everyone from the AFL-CIO to the Libertarian Party to the Center for Reproductive Rights offered their take on...
Springfield's Hidden Emerald Heart

Springfield's Hidden Emerald Heart

by | Jul 5, 2012 | News

“Funerals never start on time here,” said James Mooney, general manager of the Springfield Cemetery, Crematory and Columbarium. “People always have a hard time finding the place.” Though the nearly 40-acre cemetery is only a few blocks from the...
CD Shorts

CD Shorts

by | Jul 5, 2012 | Music

Neneh Cherry & The ThingThe Cherry Thing(Smalltown Supersound) The real surprise here isn’t the collaboration between the singer of pop hit “Buffalo Stance” and a Scandinavian free jazz trio, but how well this set of eclectic covers works. From...