by Dave Eisenstadter | May 15, 2019 | Articles, Between the Lines, Featured, News
Earlier this week, both Holyoke and South Hadley overwhelmingly passed municipal resolutions in support of Medicare for All legislation. A few weeks earlier, Boston’s City Council did the same. They join Northampton, Cambridge, Williamsburg, and assorted other...
by Dave Eisenstadter | May 15, 2019 | Articles, Bizarro Briefs, Featured, News
A daring escape In what could easily be a scene from an action movie (starring an elderly woman and her cat), a Massachusetts woman managed to save herself and her feline companion from drowning when the car they were driving crashed into a river and sank. The woman,...
by Dave Eisenstadter | May 8, 2019 | Articles, Between the Lines, Featured, News
With the constant hum of negative political news at the national and international level, it’s easy to miss the fact that we may be on the verge of something very positive on the local and state level with regard to food and hunger. The centerpiece has been a...
by Dave Eisenstadter | May 1, 2019 | Articles, Between the Lines, Featured, News
Last week, a Facebook comment thread on a Valley Advocate parenting column about dealing with tantrums went in an unexpected direction. Despite the article having nothing to do with vaccines, a reader took the opportunity to rail against them and espouse conspiracy...
by Dave Eisenstadter | Apr 23, 2019 | Articles, Featured, News
The former director of the Amherst office of for-profit organization Grassroots Campaigns Inc., which raises money for progressive nonprofit organizations, says her employment was terminated earlier this month after she instituted policies she believed supported her...