Guest Column: Healthy Community Land Care

by | Dec 4, 2013 | News

A bevy of emails has landed in my inbox, each raising the same question: Is there a safe, effective, economical way to remove the weeds growing on Northampton’s Florence Fields besides a broad spraying of Roundup? Yes, of course! After all, the best-selling...

From Our Readers

by | Jan 7, 2014 | News

Horns for the Advocate? Regarding the Halos and Horns issue (December 26, 2013), I think you missed a good opportunity to assess yourselves as deserving horns for failing to offer sufficient coverage of perhaps the two biggest anniversaries affecting our lives: the...

From Our Readers

by | Dec 4, 2013 | News

Patrick’s Puzzling Priorities Tom Vannah got it right in his column, “Our NIMBY Governor” (November 21, 2013): Deval Patrick is indeed “smug” and “tone deaf” and, furthermore, he has a strange set of priorities. He recently...
LGBT athletes

LGBT athletes

by | Jan 7, 2014 | News

The Olympics are never political. Except when they are. The question of what, if anything, might be done by the gay rights community and its supporters to address Russia’s stringent anti-gay laws came to a crescendo recently when President Obama named the...

Between the Lines: No Cheers for Obamacare

by | Dec 10, 2013 | News

A recent editorial in the Springfield Republican defending Obamacare revealed just how shallow the region’s biggest daily paper can be in its endless pandering to Democrats. The Republican’s insipid “Obamacare’s critics continue their...