by Gail Kielson and La Wanza Lett-Brewington | Mar 31, 2009 | News
Tom Vannah expressed concerns that Mayor Clare Higgins' endorsement of the Safe Passage Hot Chocolate Run "smacks of shameless self-promotion by the mayor." He also suggested that the mayor, "who is listed on the race website as 'title...
by Tom Vannah | Apr 2, 2009 | News
Thank you, Hillary Clinton! I don't exactly know where the Secretary of State expects to go with her analysis of the drug violence exploding in Mexico, but I appreciate her framing the issue. The violence in Mexico, Clinton said last week, is the result of high...
by Mary Nelen and Mark Roessler | Apr 2, 2009 | News
Here comes spring, a manifest destiny of nature. If your manifest destiny is to eat local without growing an entire season of food in your yard, check out a farm share. In the Happy Valley are no less than 15 stewards of the land who offer access to their barns once a...
by Tom Vannah | Apr 2, 2009 | News
If you want to know one of the reasons why some people in the Northampton area objected so strenuously to a proposal by a few local businesspeople to create a Business Improvement District in Northampton, you might start by reading Matt Taibbi's latest piece for...
by Beatriz Bianco (BB Sunshine) | Apr 2, 2009 | News
On Friday, March 13th, approximately 50 people gathered in front of City Hall on Main Street in Northampton to protest the Business Improvement District [which the City Council approved two weeks ago]. The BID is a consumerism-based rather than community-based piece...
