by Our Readers | Dec 22, 2011 | News
High on Textosterone Every day we hear of yet another traffic “accident” resulting from road rage, teenagers speeding through curves or the average citizen being in a hurry to go nowhere. Now we are seeing how cell phones/texting devices compromise the...
by James Heflin | Dec 22, 2011 | News
It’s all but a done deal: a casino will soon be part of the landscape somewhere in Western Mass. With casinos come big-name entertainers—primarily musicians and comedians—and competition for audiences and discretionary dollars. In a region full of...
by Advocate Staff | Dec 29, 2011 | News
Like most of the country he was elected to lead, President Barack Obama finds himself in purgatory, expiating his sins while reckoning with the sins of others—the sins of a cynical, short-sighted political and industrial culture dominated by an increasingly...
by Stephanie Kraft | Dec 29, 2011 | News
Whatever shabby deals the corporate news media make with the financial and political powers that be, NBC and other major networks have been doing a service lately by bringing into our living rooms the faces that illustrate the most appalling side of the current...
by Our Readers | Dec 29, 2011 | News
Casinos: Gateway to the Future? Reading recent letters to the Advocate opposing casino gambling in Massachusetts makes me wonder what future, if any, this state can expect. Absent intervention by a few gatekeepers, including the writers of those letters, the citizens...
