by Dave Eisenstadter | Apr 17, 2019 | Articles, Between the Lines, Featured, News
Since Thursday, April 11, Stop & Shop workers have been on strike, picketing what their union says is an unfair contract deal with owners of the grocery store chain. Hanging in the background of this dispute is one of the great demons of employment today — robots....
by Dave Eisenstadter | Apr 10, 2019 | Articles, Featured, News
The first time Carmen Allison’s things were taken from a storage unit at Stuff-It Storage in Hadley was in the summer of 2015. She had recently lost her job as a caretaker in Amherst and was away for a few months to look for work in New Jersey. She reported the items...
by Dave Eisenstadter | Apr 3, 2019 | Articles, Between the Lines, Featured, News
Last week, 14 Springfield police officers were indicted by a Worcester-based grand jury. It was in connection with a 2015 alleged assault on four people following a disagreement at a city bar. Some are charged with assault and battery, and others for covering it up....
by Dave Eisenstadter | Mar 27, 2019 | Articles, Clueless Parent, Columns, Featured
I got an email from a PR firm this week with the subject line: “The Epidemic of Extreme Parenting: How to Self-Assess.” I would say it was an interesting coincidence that it appeared just before the launch of this column, but it isn’t really. When I became a dad early...
by Dave Eisenstadter | Mar 27, 2019 | Articles, Between the Lines, Featured, News
Following the Parkland shooting last year, I was inspired by the activism of many of the student survivors, who marched to their state capital and lobbied Washington for gun control. The Advocate did a story about how those students were inspiring students in our own...
