by Maureen Turner | Sep 6, 2012 | News
Massachusetts voters are firmly in support of a November ballot initiative that would legalize the medical use of marijuana, according to recent poll results. Fifty-eight percent of respondents favored the measure, while 27 percent were opposed and 15 percent were...
by Terry Allen | Sep 27, 2012 | News
Mitt Romney has a debilitating condition that won’t show up in his medical report: severe cognitive dissonance—simultaneously holding conflicting ideas, beliefs and values. His problem goes deeper than routine hypocrisy and expedient flip-flopping. Romney...
by Pete Redington | Sep 6, 2012 | News
Local journalist Jonathan Green didn’t realize what he was getting into when he took the Men’s Journal article assignment that led to his first book, Murder in the High Himalaya: Loyalty, Tragedy, and Escape from Tibet. “I started out thinking it...
by Maureen Turner | Sep 27, 2012 | News
One year ago this fall, Alex Morse upended all kinds of preconceived notions about electability when he won the Holyoke mayor’s race. “Old Holyoke makes way for New Holyoke as Alex Morse, 22, elected mayor by defeating incumbent Elaine Pluta, 67,”...
by Stephanie Kraft | Sep 6, 2012 | News
As the election season rap sheet on Mitt Romney grows longer, dramatic accusations are being aimed at the Republican Party’s anointed contender for the White House—accusations being circulated not only by liberals but by independents and libertarians....