by Stephanie Kraft | Dec 8, 2011 | News
In a move that may bring radioactivity closer to beautiful Dimmock Pond and nearby homes in Springfield’s Indian Orchard, the UniFirst company at 295 Parker Street is planning to acquire more than half an acre of Hubbard Park, which lies just outside...
by Maureen Turner | Dec 8, 2011 | News
In 2009, Americans bought 438 million new computers, televisions, phones, tablets and other consumer electronics, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. In many cases, those new items replaced older models left obsolete—or, at least, no longer...
by Tom Vannah | Dec 8, 2011 | News
Elizabeth Warren spoke to a group of newspaper publishers in Boston last week, giving an important speech to people with the power to influence media coverage of her Senate race against Republican Scott Brown. The Massachusetts Newspaper Publishers Association held...
by Tom Sturm | Dec 8, 2011 | News
Lynn Margulis, noted biologist and professor at UMass-Amherst’s Department of Geosciences, died Nov. 22 at the age of 73. A widely respected pioneer in the field of microbiology, Margulis was a fierce proponent of symbiotic theories of evolution that often went...
by Tim Cavanaugh | Dec 15, 2011 | News
With Hollywood hipster clothing boutiques declaring “Broke Is the New Black,” establishment media outlets circulating the tired phrase “new normal” to describe America’s four-year-old economic stagnation, and producers trying to capture...
