by Stephanie Kraft | Nov 27, 2008 | News
As the U.S. faces the dirty job of reforming the financial industry, the hot-button question is this: do we want public policy to favor the garnering of huge capital by a few people and institutions, or to favor financial security for as many people as possible,...
by Mark Roessler | Nov 27, 2008 | News
On Monday, Nov. 17, for the second time in its 14-year history, the Northampton Citizens Advisory Committee invited the public to participate in one of its meetings. More accurately, the CAC's chair, Mayor Mary Clare Higgins, let the public speak.In the past, the...
by Tom Vannah | Nov 27, 2008 | News
The numbers aren't very good for Deval Patrick, but that's no surprise. The governor's casino plan went down in ashes earlier this year just as the economy began to tank. Since then, any radiance Patrick still had was largely eclipsed by Barack Obama and...
by Stephanie Kraft | Nov 27, 2008 | News
Every day a family in Springfield loses its home—some days, more than one family (235 over the 180 days prior to press time). Holyoke, with 19 foreclosures in the last six months—11 of them within the last 60 days—by now has a higher foreclosure rate...
by Mary Serreze | Nov 27, 2008 | News
Who'd have thought that one of the hot-button issues facing Northampton these days would be—garbage, the stuff we think disappears after we throw it away? But the question of whether the city's landfill should be expanded in such a way that a part of it...
