Timorous times and health hazards

“So how are your kids liking their new school?” my daughter’s fourth-grade teacher asked me last week. “Things are going pretty well overall,” I replied, “except for some bullying. My son had a problem yesterday in gym class....

Random media roundup

The latest Business West features a folksy interview with new Springfield Finance Control Board chairman Christopher Gabrieli, who identifies four top priorities that must be “addressed simultaneously and with equal vigor”—new job sources and the...

The city giveth and the city taketh away

A number of press releases from the Springfield mayor’s office crossed the wires late last week, covering the matters of the city’s trash collection, the facelift reconstruction about to take place on Main Street downtown, and the demolition of a vacant...