Casinos in Court
A grassroots campaign to repeal Massachusetts’ casino legislation has cleared a major hurdle in its effort to put the matter before voters next year. Last week, Secretary of State William Galvin confirmed that the group had collected enough signatures to get the...
“It Would Take a Miracle”
Scott Lively, best known to many as the promoter of an extreme Ugandan law against homosexuality, is now channeling his energies into state politics. Lively, whose base of operations is Holy Grounds—a church in Springfield that “looks like a coffee...
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On Walmart Wages Some marked the start of the holiday season by camping out in big-box parking lots for bargains; others marked it by drawing attention to the low wages and spotty benefits granted to the people who work in those stores. The day after...
Click Here to Mourn
I first crossed paths with John Sims on an archaeological dig in Switzerland. It took me a few hours to figure out that he spoke English—not because he was a man of few words, but because his asides and comments arrived as odd-rhythmed mumbles he seemed to...E-Edition
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