Snow Woes

Having a bad day at work? Just be glad you’re not Al Chwalek. This afternoon, the city’s DPW head is being called on the carpet by the City Council’s planning and economic development and maintenance committees over the department’s performance...

Show Some Love

If you like your Valentine’s Day romance with a nice dose of political activism, here are two events to check out today: • “One Billion Rising,” from noon to 1 p.m. at Tower Square, part of V-Day, an international movement working to stop...

Casinos by the Numbers

Having a hard time sorting out the various details of the two casino proposals working their way through City Hall? Here, the Reminder’s Mike Dobbs offers a handy comparison of the two plans, culled from a “Proposal Comparison Matrix,” a somewhat...

Our Lady of Hope Back in Court

The battle over the fate of the former Our Lady of Hope parish has been quiet for some time, but it’s not over. As the Republican’s Pete Goonan reports here, the Springfield Diocese is continuing to fight the City Council’s decision, in 2009, to...

Blast From the Past (With Cosby Sweater)

One sign that I’ve been writing about Springfield for a long time: the number of things I’ve forgotten about. Like, for instance, Dan Yorke’s nightly t.v. talk show, which ran on Channel 40 back in the 1990s. So I was thrilled to read this...