by Alan Bisbort | Jun 21, 2007 | News
Americans are, by their own self-description, a religious people. Ninety percent claim belief in God, 70 percent claim membership in a denomination of an organized religion, 38 percent claim to be "committed Christians."More Americans believe in angels than...
by Kendra Thurlow | Jun 21, 2007 | News
The smell of mothballs may have been the first thing to stir public reaction, but as the remediation of the former Bay State Gas facility in Northampton continues, city residents look ahead—some with grave reservations—at a proposal to erect a 100-room...
by Mark Roessler | Jun 22, 2007 | News
In an interview with Tom Vannah last week on WHMP, Mayor Clare Higgins admitted the plan for the new Hilton in downtown Northampton was unimpressive, calling it "modest." Earlier, on the same program, city planner Wayne Feiden insisted that what will be the...
by Alan Bisbort | Jun 28, 2007 | News
Stick a fork in them. They are done. "They" are anyone involved with the Bush administration. Bush is at 26% approval rating; only Nixon, prior to resigning, was lower (there's still time, George!). Cheney is unhinged, claiming he's a fourth branch...
by James Heflin | Jun 28, 2007 | News
In the Bush era, with graduates of Pat Robertson's university packing the Justice Department, holy rollers fighting the teaching of evolution, and Supreme Court justices mistaking their robes for clerical garb, surely the population of right wing evangelicals is...
