by Maureen Turner | Dec 17, 2012 | News
It suffices to say that the last few weeks have not been a high point of Alex Morse’s budding political career. To recap: late last month, the Holyoke mayor-who won office in 2011 in large part on the strength of his anti-casino position-dropped a bombshell,...
by Stephanie Kraft | Dec 21, 2012 | News
Now our much-vaunted allegiance to the Second Amendment, broadly interpreted—so broadly that it puts guns on our streets that have no legitimate use except on the battlefield—has given us 20 more martyrs. Very small martyrs, the youngest barely six years...
by James Heflin | Dec 21, 2012 | News
There’s an old joke in which a man passes another on the street corner every day. The second man always leans in a doorway, snapping his fingers endlessly. When, finally, curiosity gets the better of the first man, he asks the snapper, “What’s with...
by Pete Redington | Dec 21, 2012 | News
What to make of the recent Wozniacki-Williams towel-stuffing tennis incident? In an exhibition match against Maria Sharapova in Brazil earlier this month, Caroline Wozniacki mocked Serena Williams by stuffing her shirt and skirt with towels. It was not the first time...
by Valley Advocate Staff | Dec 21, 2012 | News
It’s been a long time since a Northampton mayor has been considered for a halo by the angels at the Valley Advocate office. To be sure, not everything David Narkewicz has done in his first year in City Hall’s top job has delighted this...
