Not About Neal

by | Aug 20, 2010 | On Springfield

A recent post on Tom Devine’s “Cosmos Report” drew my attention to some interesting lawn signs being distributed by Tom Wesley, one of this fall’s Republican challengers for the 2nd Congressional seat currently held by Springfield’s own...

Death Penalty Foes Plan Memorial

by | Aug 23, 2010 | On Springfield

Eighty-three years ago this month, the Italian immigrants Ferdinando Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were put to death, via electric chair, for the murders of two men during an armed robbery at a Braintree shoe company. Police believed Sacco and Vanzetti, who...

Meet Your Next District Attorney

by | Aug 26, 2010 | On Springfield

Twenty years after he first took office—and almost as long since he was supposed to leave that office, had he followed the self-imposed term limits he gave himself during that initial campaign—Hampden County District Attorney is about to retire. And the...

School Choice

by | Aug 30, 2010 | On Springfield

The on-going controversy surrounding charter schools —Do they unfairly siphon crucial money away from already struggling local schools to serve a self-selecting group of families? Or do they offer important models of educational innovation, and serve kids not...