by Our Readers | Dec 15, 2011 | News
Recycling Electronics The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) urges consumers to dispose properly of end-of-life electronics through its recycling locator at www.GreenerGadgets.org [“Where Old Computers Go to Die,” December 8, 2011]. This list only...
by Maureen Turner | Dec 15, 2011 | News
The Obama administration has dealt a blow to women’s reproductive rights, in a move that smells of election-season posturing. Last week, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius took the unprecedented step of overruling a recommendation by the...
by Stephanie Kraft | Dec 15, 2011 | News
It’s no wonder that the 2012 defense reauthorization bill passed by the House threatened the historic fabric of American civil liberties. For a while now, legislation coming out of the House has been a brew that might have been whipped up in a caldron by...
by Stephanie Kraft | Dec 15, 2011 | News
In an age when so many politicians are invisible under the expensive facades created by their handlers, it’s painful to think how much we will miss Barney Frank, now 71, who just announced that he will not run for reelection to his U.S. House seat next year....
by Maureen Turner | Dec 20, 2011 | News
Last week, the Springfield City Council took a decisive step toward trying to stop a controversial wood-burning power plant proposed in the city. At a special meeting on Dec. 7, the Council voted, 9 to 2, to appeal the building permit issued last month to the would-be...
