by Tom Vannah | Jun 28, 2012 | News
The book on my bedside table right now is about fishing, the debut non-fiction work of Matt Rigney, a Guilford, Conn. native who lives in Whately. In Pursuit of Giants: One Man’s Global Search for the Last of the Great Fish is a very important book; for anyone...
by Maureen Turner | Jul 5, 2012 | News
In February, President Obama submitted his proposed fiscal 2013 budget of $3.67 trillion to Congress. Do you know what’s in the president’s budget? Is it higher or lower than last year’s? Which programs would get the most money, and which the least?...
by Stephanie Kraft | Jul 5, 2012 | News
The North Carolina state Senate has passed a bill banning the use of updated climate change science in proposals to deal with rising sea levels along its coast. The vote comes in response to demands by NC20, a group spearheaded by real estate interests in the...
by Our Readers | Jul 5, 2012 | News
Food Program Deserves Support In response to “Too Many Hungry People” (Letters, June 28, 2012), we wholeheartedly concur with the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts and applaud Sens. Kerry and Brown in voting down harmful amendments to our nation’s...
by Maureen Turner | Jul 5, 2012 | News
No sooner had the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Affordable Care Act been released last week than our inboxes began filling up with press releases, as everyone from the AFL-CIO to the Libertarian Party to the Center for Reproductive Rights offered their take on...
