by Maureen Turner | Oct 23, 2008 | News
Last week, a group of local police chiefs, district attorneys and sheriffs gathered outside West Springfield High to warn of the dire consequences they insist will result if Massachusetts voters decide next month to amend the state marijuana laws."Ballot Question...
by Tom Vannah | Oct 30, 2008 | News
Like a lot of people in the Valley—and, if TV ratings are to be believed, a lot of people around the nation—I've been getting a lot of my news lately from Rachel Maddow and her colleagues at MSNBC. As uplifting as MSNBC's coverage has been for...
by Mark Roessler | Oct 30, 2008 | News
Last Wednesday, October 22, the Citizens Advisory Committee (CAC) met for the third time this year to discuss plans for the northernmost part of the development where the historic Northampton State Hospital once stood. Before them was a proposal for an additional...
by Maureen Turner | Oct 30, 2008 | News
Here's what's happened since the Springfield Towing Alliance got the news, late last month, that the City of Springfield was terminating its contract to handle all police-ordered towing in the city:STA has held a press conference criticizing an extensive...
by Alan Bisbort | Oct 30, 2008 | News
Contrary to all indications otherwise, Sarah Palin is not an idiot. Oh, you bet, she says things that indicate her brain may at times resemble a vast windblown tundra, but she's smart as a whip in ways I will demonstrate below. Don't forget, she was, until two...
