by our readers | Jul 17, 2008 | News
More War in Our Name?Our thanks to Stephanie Kraft for alerting Advocate readers to the Bush administration's renewed efforts to initiate military action against Iran. Her article "Another War?" [July 3, 2008] is the most sober and succinct assessment of...
by James Heflin | Jul 17, 2008 | News
Last spring, the Democratic majority finally did the sort of thing congressional majorities usually do: it stood up to the president's demands to update the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to include retroactive immunity for the communications companies who...
by Stephanie Kraft | Jul 23, 2008 | News
The controversy over the extension of the Northampton landfill is historic—an historic collision between the garbage and water, probably the most dramatic collision of that kind that the Valley has seen. It comes very close to embracing all the Valley, because...
by Maureen Turner | Jul 24, 2008 | News
At the time, it might have seemed a King Solomon-like solution to the ever-contentious problem of Springfield's municipal towing contract: in April, 2007 then-Mayor Charlie Ryan decided that rather than select one of the two companies vying for the contract,...
by Chase Scheinbaum | Jul 24, 2008 | News
Berkshire Community College is among a growing group of colleges—mainly community and junior colleges—to whom major lenders have cut loans. The lenders, including such heavyweights as Citibank, JPMorgan Chase and Citizens Bank, have in some cases...
