by Maureen Turner | May 12, 2009 | News
Experienced sources insist to the Advocate that kidney stones are a terribly painful matter, comparable to the pain of childbirth. The Advocate will respectfully point out that we’ve never heard of anyone passing an eight-pound, 12-ounce kidney stone. Still, it...
by Our Readers | May 14, 2009 | News
Biomass' Double WhammyProposals for numerous large-scale wood-burning electrical plants in western Massachusetts are alarming to those of us who are concerned about climate change. These are what you would build if you wanted to do everything possible to increase...
by Stephanie Kraft | May 14, 2009 | News
In the mid-1950s, the U.S. government taxed the pants off the rich—and no one called it socialism, even though the Red Scare was at its height in those days. The government taxed the rich hard because it knew very well that, with a few exceptions, most people...
by Mark Roessler | May 14, 2009 | News
Making good on a promise mentioned in last week's story, "Train Departing Amherst Station," Sam Bartlett, the manager of the Shelburne Falls Trolley Museum, emailed the Valley Advocate several images his father had taken of trains on the route described...
by Maureen Turner | May 14, 2009 | News
When Victoria Munroe first heard that Northampton's Cooley Dickinson Hospital had eliminated its regular drop-in clinic for breastfeeding moms, her first instinct was to get upset. "Of course I was outraged. How can they cut the breastfeeding clinic?...
