by Heather Brandon | Feb 16, 2007 | Urban Compass
A study (PDF) recently released by UMass-Boston’s Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy shows that people of color are severely underrepresented in elected and appointed offices at the municipal level. The study looked at ten cities and towns in greater...
by Heather Brandon | Feb 19, 2007 | Urban Compass
At a Springfield City Council committee meeting yesterday at City Hall, the city’s flood protection system problem was discussed. Springfield Water and Sewer Commission executive director Joseph Superneau was there to say that the April 30 federal deadline for a...
by Heather Brandon | Feb 20, 2007 | Urban Compass
The Springfield City Library Web site offers up meeting notes in a steady stream emerging from the work of a steering committee tasked with figuring out a new location for a Mason Square branch library. Mason Square’s former fire station, vacant for 20 years...
by Heather Brandon | Feb 20, 2007 | Urban Compass
An independent auditor’s report (PDF) of the city’s finances during fiscal year 2006 was recently made available by the Springfield Finance Control Board. Titled unassumingly, "Report on Examination of Basic Financial Statements," the report was...
by Heather Brandon | Feb 21, 2007 | Urban Compass
"The Invisible Soldiers: Unheard Voices," a 2000 documentary film about the service of African-American soldiers in World War II, will be screened for the public for free tonight, 7:00 pm, at Springfield College’s Appleton Auditorium in the Fuller Arts...
