by Mark Roessler | Jul 12, 2012 | News
Recently I received a press release announcing that over 10,000 people of faith have signed a petition calling on Manhattan’s Trinity church to drop charges against Occupy protesters. Faithful America, an online community of over 140,000 members, wanted to...
by Rebecca Burns | Jul 26, 2012 | News
At an October, 2011 meeting between Pakistani elders and human rights lawyers, 16-year-old Tariq Aziz stood up to volunteer for a dangerous assignment. The meeting, held in Islamabad by U.K. legal charity Reprieve, sought to expose the impact of drone strikes in the...
by Maureen Turner | Jul 19, 2012 | News
Last Wednesday was a busy day for Tim Purington. That afternoon, his agency, Florence-based Tapestry Health, officially announced that it was starting a needle exchange program in Holyoke. In addition to getting the program, which had been approved by city officials...
by Tom Vannah | Aug 2, 2012 | News
If Bill Pepin failed to grasp what my 11-year-old daughter and her classmates have known since the third grade, perhaps I could muster a little sympathy for his situation. If he believed in a fiction in which each parcel of property were a self-contained ecosystem and...
by Stephanie Kraft and Patrick Kelley | Jul 19, 2012 | News
An anti-foreclosure ordinance passed last year by the Springfield City Council has survived a challenge by banks and by the Massachusetts Bankers Association (“Court Lets Anti-Foreclosure Rules Stand,” July 12, 2012). The passage of the ordinance, which...
