by On Springfield | Feb 15, 2011 | On Springfield
The Forest Park Civic Association holds it annual meeting this Sunday, where neighbors will get together over a potluck meal and hear addresses from a number of state and city officials about issues relevant to the neighborhood. At the top of that list, I’m...
by On Springfield | Feb 18, 2011 | On Springfield
This evening, the City Council will again take up a vote that would move forward long-in-the-works plans to expand and renovate the Forest Park Middle School. The Council was supposed to vote on the matter at its meeting last Monday. But that vote was postponed by a...
by On Springfield | Feb 21, 2011 | On Springfield
Love the idea of charter schools and consider them the best, most innovative and exciting way to revive our failing public education system? Hate charter schools, and consider them feel-good but unproven band aids that undercut teacher unions and divert money from...
by On Springfield | Feb 25, 2011 | On Springfield
In 2004, with the city of Springfield as on the verge of financial collapse, then-Gov. Mitt Romney offered a financial lifeline: a $20 million state grant to shore up the city’s budget. But the check came with a significant catch: to get the funds, the city...
by On Springfield | Mar 2, 2011 | On Springfield
I love it when the Springfield Republican gets something good stuck in its editorial craw. No, I haven’t forgotten my tiresome list of grievances against Springfield’s daily newspaper, most of them relating to its historic tendency to give certain,...
