by Maureen Turner | May 3, 2013 | News
The boss makes more money than the worker bees; we all know that. But a new report underscores just how big that gap can be. According to Executive PayWatch 2013, CEOs at the biggest American corporations are paid 354 times what the average rank-and-file worker makes....
by Maureen Turner | May 3, 2013 | News
The Mass. Department of Corrections is considering a new policy that would subject prison visitors to searches by drug-sniffing dogs. “There’s always a problem with people trying to bring things into prisons that shouldn’t be there,”...
by Stephanie Kraft | May 3, 2013 | News
Glenn Greenwald, columnist for the American edition of The Guardian and author of With Liberty and Justice for Some (2011), had this to say about the Boston Marathon bombing: “The widespread compassion for yesterday’s victims and the intense anger over the...
by Stephanie Kraft | May 3, 2013 | News
In a move that could change the character of several major American newspapers, Charles and David Koch are said to be considering a purchase of the Tribune media company, which would give them the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, the Baltimore Sun, the Orlando...
by Stephanie Kraft | May 3, 2013 | News
New England is full of evocative oddities that are clues to an older time: fragments of stone walls, metal objects poking up from the ground—cryptic but eloquent remains of history. South Hawley, a Franklin County village long forgotten along with the stagecoach...