by Alan Bisbort | Jul 24, 2008 | News
Four years ago, I placed a bumper sticker on my car emblazoned "Howard Dean for America." It is still there. Other stickers have come and gone since then, but the Howard Dean for America sticker remains. I received the sticker after making a donation to...
by Maureen Turner | Jul 24, 2008 | News
This isn't the first time Bobby Jones, president of the Springfield Towing Alliance, has turned up in the middle of a controversy. Over the years, his name has been linked to a number of controversies in the city.In 1989, Jones sold three adjacent parcels of land...
by Stephanie Kraft | Jul 24, 2008 | News
As the high price of oil gives us the prod we need to get into buses, trains or carpools—or just to walk—it's worth a look at what Hampshire College Professor of Peace and World Security Studies Michael Klare has to say about how the Bush...
by our readers | Jul 24, 2008 | News
Not Just About Peak OilThank you for Hayley Wood's interesting look at various "intentional communities" here in Western Mass. ["Where We Ought to be," June 19, 2008]. The article implied, however,?that Peak Oil and concern about global...
by Mark Roessler | Jul 24, 2008 | News
Last October, when the Valley Advocate published my first story about the development on Northampton’s Hospital Hill and the demolition of the historic buildings there, I naively thought it might get at least get a reaction from those I was writing about, if not...
