The World This Week: Nafty Business

While the cat has been away in Iraq, the mice have been at play here in the United States. More like rats than mice, actually, they've set up one of the worst traps in American history. And we are all about to drive right into it. The latest rat trap goes by the...

What Do You Think?

How Terrorists WinDuring the Democratic debate on CNN, they flashed a question—I’m paraphrasing from memory—“What is more important, backing an ally in the war on terror or sticking to democratic ideals?” This is an inane question. If we...

Between the Lines: Dragone: A Good Bet?

The developer of the proposed billion-dollar casino resort in Palmer is being sued for a total of more than a quarter of a million dollars by three companies who claim that he refused to pay them for preliminary work on the development. Northeast Realty Associates,...

Local Boy Makes Bad

That will a certain local supermarket executive get in his stocking this Christmas? Local union activists hope it’s a big switch. Don D’Amour, CEO of Big Y supermarkets, has achieved the dubious honor of being one of four nominees to be Mass. Jobs with...

What Do You Think?

Nafta AlleyThanks for publishing Alan Bisbort’s piece on the “Super Corridor” monster highway plan for the U.S.-Canada-Mexico being forced down our throats by the two main corporate-owned political parties, “The Demo-publicans”...