by Our Readers | May 21, 2009 | News
Obama's OpportunityStephanie Kraft's exploration of the American obsession with Iran ("We Forget, Iran Remembers," April 30) begs comment. Our government is responsible for a half-century history of imperial meddling in Iran's affairs and...
by Tom Sturm | May 21, 2009 | News
When I last wrote about West Springfield's Scuderi Group ("Strokes of Genius," March 9, 2006), the family business's patriarch and principal inventor of the Scuderi split-cycle engine, Carmelo Scuderi, had recently passed away. At that time, the...
by Stephanie Kraft | May 26, 2009 | News
A sidelight on hard times not often mentioned is the situation of those still at work.Of course, they (we) are thankful to have jobs at all. But rather than a nation divided between the anxious, broke unemployed (or underemployed) and the comfortable, successful...
by Mark Roessler | May 26, 2009 | News
On Wednesday, May 20, Northampton residents who live near Hospital Hill were offered a preview of the plans for offices and a new manufacturing facility to be built by Kollmorgen Electro-Optical where once the state hospital’s south campus stood. The plans are...
by Mark Roessler | May 26, 2009 | News
As a teenager, whenever I was faced with a long stretch of nothing to do (road trips, insomnia, school), I would spend my time constructing my dream house in my head. The mansion that slowly grew in my imagination was a mish-mash of Victorian-era styles I...
