by Juan Williams | Jun 19, 2012 | News
Congress has a long “To Do” list for the rest of the year, beginning with pumping up the economy. But the calendar of working days on the Republican majority leader’s website shows Congress is scheduled to be in session only 52 more days this year....
by Tom Sturm | Jun 19, 2012 | News
The widely popular move to update the Massachusetts Bottle Bill (H890 in the House, S1650 in the Senate) has been dealt another blow by the powerful committee in whose hands the measure’s fate resides. The bill, which would update the decades-old recycling...
by Maureen Turner | Jun 19, 2012 | News
Massachusetts physician Jill Stein has apparently clinched the Green Party’s presidential nomination, winning the support of 204 of the 304 delegates who’ll be at the party’s convention next month in Baltimore, her campaign recently announced. Stein,...
by Stephanie Kraft | Jun 19, 2012 | News
There was nothing sweet about the fight between sugar (made from cane or beets) and high fructose corn syrup that’s now ended in a loss for corn syrup [“For Sweeteners, A Bitter Battle,” April 5, 2012]. Manufacturers of corn syrup, which is...
by Maureen Turner | Jun 19, 2012 | News
Last week, parishioners at Holyoke’s Mater Dolorosa church ended a round-the-clock vigil they’d been holding there for almost a year. Mater Dolorosa was one of a number of Catholic churches closed by the Springfield diocese in recent years, in response to...
