by Our Readers | Feb 4, 2013 | News
Arts Center Seeks New Home While agreeing with this article (“Finding the Center,” January 24, 2013) about the need for full support of the arts in Northampton, I do wish to correct any idea that First Churches Northampton is part of the problem. We...
by Stephanie Kraft | Mar 4, 2013 | News
The folks who deal with waste and recycling for the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection work quietly, but their mill grinds on, cranking out plans to reduce Massachusetts’ mountains of garbage. The state’s landfill space has shrunk to...
by Stephanie Kraft | Feb 4, 2013 | News
The deep underground water supplies in the U.S. are in danger—in danger of depletion because of increasing use, and in danger from pollution because of lax federal regulations that assumed that many deep-lying reservoirs would never be needed. But they may,...
by Ted Rall | Feb 25, 2013 | News
“Your dearest wish is for our state structure and ideological system never to change, to remain as they are for centuries. But history is not like that. Every system either finds a way to develop or else collapses.” Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote that in...
by Pete Redington | Feb 4, 2013 | News
To paraphrase New Deal President Franklin Roosevelt, what good is political equality when there is still economic inequality? Answer: not much, as an Oxfam International report released earlier this month suggests. Timed to coincide with the World Economic Forum held...
