by Alan Bisbort | Aug 21, 2008 | News
Given how much it means to us, how often we crave it, dream about and seek it out, food gets very little "play" in our political discourse. We just keep right on munching Cheetos, Dunkin' Donuts (with "sprinkles") and Big Macs while the talking...
by our readers | Aug 28, 2008 | News
Throwaway Society No MoreAs a volunteer for Keep Springfield Beautiful, I appreciated Alan Bisbort alerting us to expanded bottle bill legislation ("Litter Bugs Us," Aug. 7, 2008) and will definitely write to my state rep and senator. In addition, in line...
by Mary Serreze | Aug 28, 2008 | News
On a balmy June day in 2006, the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), under Gov. Mitt Romney's Commissioner Robert W. Golledge, did something new: it gave a small city in the western part of the state permission to circumvent drinking water...
by Alan Bisbort | Aug 28, 2008 | News
Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.) finds himself in exactly the same position that Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman found himself in in 2000. Biden has been selected as the Democratic presidential candidate's vice presidential running mate in a year when he also faces a...
by Stephanie Kraft | Aug 28, 2008 | News
Hats off to Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley for demanding that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission consider the potential of hot waste stored at nuclear power plants to become a bomb in the hands of terrorists. Two years ago, Coakley petitioned the NRC to...
