Welcome in This Place

Welcome in This Place

Growing up in Three Rivers in the 1960s, Suzanne Strempek Shea had a fairly typical Catholic childhood. Weekdays, she donned a plaid uniform and headed to the local parochial school, where she was taught by nuns, both the book-hurling, skull-rapping variety and the...

Getting Wired

First Franklin District State Rep. Steve Kulik (D-Worthington) knows all too well the impact the "digital divide" can have on the quality of life of a Western Mass. resident."I have the dubious distinction of being the only legislator in this state who...

Imperium Watch: Scamalot

If you were about to give to the National Republican Congressional Committee, close your wallet. It's not certain yet, but it seems that that committee has been hemorrhaging money into an elaborate embezzlement setup invented by its former treasurer, Christopher...

Imperium Watch: Banking on the Quick Buck

Citibank, part of the largest bank holding company in the U.S., is now propped up by an infusion of cash from Abu Dhabi, Singapore and Saudi Arabia because of $24 billion in losses stemming from the subprime lending disaster and other credit problems. In the world of...

What do you think?

Cold War Nostalgia"Star Wars 2.0" [March 6, 2008] hit the nail on the head. The continued military expansion of the U.S. government, as exemplified by the recent Bush negotiations with Poland, shows without a doubt that our government is aching and yearning...