by Stephanie Kraft | Sep 20, 2012 | News
Climate change is cutting the productivity of nuclear power plants and other energy generating facilities as summers get hotter. That’s because heat raises the temperature and lowers the volume of cooling water. Nuclear plants along the Connecticut River were...
by Stephanie Kraft | Aug 30, 2012 | News
Michigan, Utah, California, Massachusetts, New Hampshire: wherever his home is, many of Mitt Romney’s image problems touch down in Massachusetts. To be fair, Massachusetts is a state in which the Republican presidential contender has spent a lot of time,...
by Our Readers | Sep 20, 2012 | News
No Lurid Graphics for Cigarette Packs I hope everyone, especially policymakers, will read Tom Sturm’s piece “The Court of Appeal” (September 6, 2012) and think seriously about it. I continue to be amazed that any young person would start smoking...
by Maureen Turner | Aug 30, 2012 | News
How does Katie Stebbins love Springfield? Let her count the ways—she’s already up to #29, the Springfield Museums. Stebbins began her list—ambitiously titled “365 Reasons to Love Springfield”—in November of 2011, on her aptly named...
by Maureen Turner | Sep 20, 2012 | News
Suzanne Seymour recently turned 50, which, she reckons, makes her an “elder” in the LGBT community. She says this with a laugh. But it’s a role she also takes very seriously. Whatever progress has been made toward equality for gay, bisexual and...
