by Stephanie Kraft | Nov 19, 2012 | News
Late this summer, the U.S. Geological Survey announced that it had located several new veins of natural gas in the eastern U.S. One, known as the Hartford (Connecticut) Basin, extends well into Western Massachusetts. And so the possibility of fracking in the Valley...
by Maureen Turner | Nov 27, 2012 | News
After years of dormancy, the Amherst branch of the NAACP is being revived. The chapter will be reactivated at a public meeting scheduled for Monday, Dec. 3, at 6:30 p.m. at the Bangs Community Center in Amherst. Patrice Woeppel, an activist helping to reestablish the...
by Maureen Turner | Nov 27, 2012 | News
After months and months of beating the lemon off Elizabeth Warren, Howie Carr must have felt crushed when she beat Scott Brown in the U.S. Senate race earlier this month. Still, the prickly-penned Boston Herald columnist leaves the election with a consolation...
by Stephanie Kraft | Nov 27, 2012 | News
In what’s being called the era of “extreme energy,” meaning that sources once considered too difficult or dangerous to tap are now being mined for oil and gas, it’s urgent that we be informed about what that mining is doing to the environment....
by Stephanie Kraft | Nov 27, 2012 | News
He’s one of the country’s leading unelected power brokers, but his clout is eroding as more and more Congresspeople mutiny against him. He’s Grover Norquist, head of Americans for Tax Reform. Norquist has long demanded that Republican Congressional...
