by Maureen Turner | Feb 20, 2013 | News
Officials from the Mass. Department of Public Health will be in Western Mass. next week to hear from local people about the state’s new medical marijuana law. The Feb. 27 informal hearing, scheduled for 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. at Holyoke Community College’s...
by Maureen Turner | Feb 4, 2013 | News
It’s been 19 years since the debut of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues, in which she looked at the many aspects of women’s sexuality, including the problems of rape and abuse, using interviews with real women as her raw material. The play, which...
by Stephanie Kraft | Mar 18, 2013 | News
It’s always news when the Nuclear Regulatory Commission turns down a request from a nuclear energy company, because the agency so seldom does that. But recently the NRC denied an appeal from French nuclear operator Electricite de France S.A. to proceed with a...
by Maureen Turner | Feb 4, 2013 | News
Of all the Massachusetts communities in the running to host a casino—there are 11 proposals for projects across the commonwealth, four of them in Western Mass.—is any counting on a casino’s potentially transformative powers as much as Springfield is?...
by Our Readers | Feb 25, 2013 | News
Gun Violence an Epidemic I disagree with Robert Underwood (Letters, February 14, 2013). Gun violence meets all the technical definitions of an epidemic. Ironically, the gun nuts who complain about a lack of statistics are those very same individuals and...
