by Mark Roessler | Mar 17, 2009 | News
On March 9, a "Local Mayors Speak" podcast on WHMP promoted itself as containing "strong words" from Northampton Mayor Clare Higgins "for those who oppose the Business Improvement District." The BID, as it's called, is one City...
by Alan Bisbort | Mar 17, 2009 | News
The thing most striking to me about the Bernard Madoff case was how quickly he confessed guilt for his $65 billion scam. From the moment he was caught, Madoff admitted he was running a Ponzi scheme; he almost seemed relieved to be free of it, and yet perversely proud...
by Maureen Turner | Mar 17, 2009 | News
Drug law reform advocates scored a decisive victory last November when voters approved, by a 65 to 35 margin, Question 2, which decriminalized possession of small amounts of marijuana. Under the new law, which went into effect in January, possession of one ounce or...
by Stephanie Kraft | Mar 17, 2009 | News
The table may tilt so that public money slides into the hands of private interests yet again as Massachusetts opens its purse to receive stimulus funds for "shovel-ready" projects.Whose shovel? This money may wind up in the hands of private developers whose...
by Stephanie Kraft | Mar 24, 2009 | News
Not just a moral imperative, but an economic imperative; that's what President Barack Obama said about health care reform at the national summit on health care March 5. After that conference, the next step was to be a set of regional forums on health care in...
