BTL: Will Voters Take a Shein to Him?

Let’s dispense with this up front: there’s not much chance that Bill Shein will win next week’s Democratic primary for the 1st Congressional District. But he should. Shein faces two other candidates in the Sept. 6 primary: Richie Neal, the 2nd...

Between the Lines: The Clinton Effect

I never really intended to watch the Democratic National Convention. I generally loathe all the self-congratulatory, aggrandizing nonsense of both parties’ outings. Thing is, every time I tuned into the DNC for a minute, someone or other was delivering an...
For the Shame of Doing Right

For the Shame of Doing Right

The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are found among millions of the working people and the few, who make up the employing class, have all the good things of life. Between these two classes...

Dirty Secrets

Your house might look nice after a Saturday-morning cleaning blitz—but is it healthy? Well, that depends on what you used to achieve all that sparkly, shiny good-smelling-ness. Based on a recent report from the nonprofit Environmental Working Group, the odds are...

Letters: What Do You Think?

Chick-fil-A Article Misses I could not disagree more with Cathy Young’s editorial “Tolerance Goes Both Ways” (August 16, 2012) in which she states that “the stigma against homosexuality has been replaced by a stigma against anti-gay...