by Maureen Turner | Jul 26, 2012 | News
Despite intense lobbying by opponents, the Massachusetts Legislature last week passed a controversial habitual offender bill known as the “three-strikes” law. Under the law, felons who’ve been convicted of at least three violent crimes, with at least...
by Our Readers | Aug 9, 2012 | News
Why Don’t GM-Crop Growers Strike Back? In regard to your recent story about organic farmers suing Monsanto (“Patently Problematic,” Aug. 2): on the whole, things are going pretty well with GM technology. As you note, adoption is spreading in much of...
by Stephanie Kraft | Aug 9, 2012 | News
It’s no news that the federal Food and Drug Administration has not always been diligent in vetting medicines and medical devices American consumers trust it to oversee. If it had, we wouldn’t have had the scandal with Vioxx that shook people’s...
by Stephanie Kraft | Aug 9, 2012 | News
Since last week, the Affordable Care Act–you may know it as Obamacare–offers women, including adolescents, preventive care benefits at no cost. Among the services new and non-grandfathered health care plans must provide free of charge: Well-woman visits,...
by Tom Sturm | Aug 9, 2012 | News
There may be no better illustration of how, even in the relatively progressive commonwealth, monied special interests are all but granted exclusive decision-making power over our daily lives than the ongoing battle over the expansion of the Mass. Bottle Bill. The bill...
