by Mark Roessler | Jan 19, 2012 | News
Hampshire Superior Court Justice Cornelius J. Moriarty ruled last month that correspondence between former Northampton economic development director Teri Anderson and the Three County Redevelopment Corporation were not exempt from public records laws. As the Valley...
by Stephanie Kraft | Jan 19, 2012 | News
President John Kennedy in June, 1963 gave a speech on peace—a peace, said Kennedy, that would not be “a pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war.” “Our diplomats,” he added, “are instructed to avoid unnecessary...
by Pete Redington | Jan 19, 2012 | News
This Friday, Jan. 20, Springfield’s U.S District Courthouse will be the site of an Occupy The Courts demonstration against corporate personhood. A day before the two-year anniversary of the Citizens United vs. Federal Elections Commission (FEC) Supreme Court...
by Maureen Turner | Jan 19, 2012 | News
Springfield has lost an engaged and engaging political and community activist with the death of Alan Howard. The 52-year-old Howard, a native of the city, died on Dec. 30 and was buried last week. It’s hard to think of an important issue in recent Springfield...
by Maureen Turner | Jan 26, 2012 | News
When state lawmakers set about reconfiguring legislative districts last year, one of their goals was to create more “minority-majority” districts around Massachusetts. One of the results: the boundaries of the Hampden State Senate district, now represented...
