by Maureen Turner | May 28, 2014 | News
In September, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley announced her intention to run for governor, putting an end to months of speculation about her political plans. And just a couple of weeks later, Maura Healey was in Coakley’s office, to let her...
by Advocate readers | May 28, 2014 | News
No Fracking Way! Regarding Maureen Turner’s piece last week on developers interested in putting a gas pipeline through sanctuary land (“An Ironic Proposal,” May 22): This proposal for a new infrastructure for a non-renewable fuel transport is simply...
by Ted Rall | May 28, 2014 | News
The recent EU court ruling ordering Google and other search engines (there are other search engines?) to process requests from European citizens to erase links to material about them is being criticized by techno-libertarians. Allowing people to clean...
by Amie Parnes | May 28, 2014 | News
With the midterm elections just six months away, President Obama and the Democrats are pining for the days of Mitt Romney. Obama wants the 2014 campaign to be about the economy and is doing everything he can to portray the GOP as out of step with middle-class concerns...
by Pete Redington | May 28, 2014 | News
According to (Springfield’s) Merriam-Webster online dictionary, to hack is to “cut or sever with repeated or unskillful blows,” or “write computer programs for enjoyment” and “gain access to a computer illegally.” None of...