Chips on the Table
Of all the Massachusetts communities in the running to host a casino—there are 11 proposals for projects across the commonwealth, four of them in Western Mass.—is any counting on a casino’s potentially transformative powers as much as Springfield is?...Letters: What Do You Think?
Arts Center Seeks New Home While agreeing with this article (“Finding the Center,” January 24, 2013) about the need for full support of the arts in Northampton, I do wish to correct any idea that First Churches Northampton is part of the problem. We...Imperium Watch: Poison in the Deep Wells
The deep underground water supplies in the U.S. are in danger—in danger of depletion because of increasing use, and in danger from pollution because of lax federal regulations that assumed that many deep-lying reservoirs would never be needed. But they may,...Oxfam Takes On Inequality
To paraphrase New Deal President Franklin Roosevelt, what good is political equality when there is still economic inequality? Answer: not much, as an Oxfam International report released earlier this month suggests. Timed to coincide with the World Economic Forum held...E-Edition
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