by Natalia Munoz | Jan 17, 2008 | News
I know an 18-year-old who is the daughter of an undocumented Mexican. She is the GOP’s nightmare.But for her mother, with whom I spoke about the upcoming Feb. 5 primaries, she embodies a dream that steadied her through nine straight hours of walking the day she...
by Martha Biondi | Jan 23, 2008 | News
AStanford University computer scientist named John Koza has formulated a compelling and pragmatic alternative to the Electoral College. It's called National Popular Vote (NPV), and has been hailed as "ingenious" in two New York Times editorials. In...
by Mark Roessler | Jan 24, 2008 | News
On December 7, 2007, then councilor-elect Bob Reckman contacted Northampton city councilors, asking them in an email how they would vote on an amendment to a Best Practices resolution. Finding that the majority were going to vote in support of his position, he emailed...
by Robert Tobey | Jan 24, 2008 | News
Did you catch the squalid YouTube dust-up between Mitt Romney and Glen Johnson, the Associated Press reporter? These hip and vivid little video snippets that now pepper our lives are remarkable for their novelistic detail and nuance, and go to show how...
by Jack Brown | Jan 24, 2008 | News
At night, empty, Pleasant Street Theater is a profoundly dark place. The wan light of the streetlights doesn't reach the recessed lobby doors, and from within, it seems as if Northampton were a stage play, brightly lit and busy. College students heading toward the...
