by Maureen Turner | Jan 29, 2013 | News
In August of 1971, Lewis Powell, Jr., an attorney working for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, wrote a private memo to the group in which be bemoaned the lack of respect accorded business interests in the halls of political power. “[A]s every business executive...
by Maureen Turner | Mar 18, 2013 | News
In the late 19th century, the Lyman Street area of downtown Holyoke underwent a significant change. Once home to Irish immigrants, who’d arrived in the city in the 1840s to work on its dams and canals, the neighborhood now began to be dominated by Polish...
by Our Readers | Jan 29, 2013 | News
Fluoride a Neurotoxin Your readers in the fluoridated towns of Amherst, Holyoke and Longmeadow may like to know that an analysis from the Harvard School of Public Health has confirmed that fluoride in drinking water is a neurotoxin, and that ingesting it lowers the IQ...
by Tom Vannah | Feb 18, 2013 | News
I understand why Gov. Deval Patrick received big accolades for his decisive statewide travel ban during last week’s bizzard (or snowstorm, depending on where in the state you found yourself at the time). I understand why plaudits came from legions of state and...
by Maureen Turner | Jan 29, 2013 | News
As if U.S. drug policy weren’t controversial enough, consider the widening inconsistency between the federal government’s hard-line stance on marijuana and the more liberal policies being adopted by many states—an inconsistency that’s creating...
