by our readers | Feb 28, 2008 | News
Wait For It!In condemning Massachusetts' landmark effort to insure our citizens, Shikha Dalmia can't wait (for the facts) to render a verdict ("No to CoerciveCare," Feb. 14).The writer claims that spending for our subsidized plan will cost 85 percent...
by Stephanie Kraft | Mar 27, 2008 | News
Just over the Massachusetts border in Vernon, Vt., the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant is showing signs of age. Last summer the Advocate published photos of a collapsing cooling tower at the plant and of an interior pipe patched with duct tape—pictures taken...
by Natalia Muñoz | Feb 28, 2008 | News
In Puerto Rico, Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton had most of the island's 63 delegates on her side for weeks. Then, on Feb. 12, Barack Obama wrote a Valentine's Day letter to the territory's governor that was filled with promises unheard of since the...
by Maureen Turner | Mar 27, 2008 | News
Springfield City Councilor Tim Rooke was getting ready to head over to a budget meeting at City Hall last Tuesday when he decided to make a quick call to the mayor's office to let them know he was coming.Rooke says he's always made it a point to show up at...
by Alan Bisbort | Mar 6, 2008 | News
George W. Bush is both out of control and out of gas, but nobody in Washington, D.C. seems willing to pry the steering wheel from his cold dead hands. All indications are, in fact, just the opposite. That is, the Democratic Party seems collectively content to go into...
