by Stephanie Kraft | Jun 18, 2009 | News
Climate change refugees aren't characters in a novel about the future. They're here. They're on islands facing inundation within the next few years, like Tuvalu, the Maldives and the Carterets. And they're in the U.S. itself. The Government Accounting...
by Stephanie Kraft | Jun 18, 2009 | News
Did you know that many states force pregnant women prisoners to be shackled when they are in labor? And that some states only allow pregnant prisoners minimal, if any, additional nutrition? (The Massachusetts Department of Correction informed the Advocate through...
by Mary Serreze | Jun 23, 2009 | News
Greenfield has just wrapped up one of the strangest mayoral elections in Pioneer Valley history. Town councilor Bill Martin, initiating an aggressive write-in campaign only 16 days before an April 21 four-way primary, garnered enough votes to take second place,...
by Alan Bisbort | Jun 25, 2009 | News
On September 26, 1983, the world came close to nuclear annihilation. On that date, Col. Stanislav Petrov was the ranking officer at the Serpukhov-15 bunker near Moscow, a facility housing the command center for the Soviet Early Warning System.Petrov's job was to...
by Mark Roessler | Jun 25, 2009 | News
It used to be that joining a circus meant sneaking out of your bedroom window late at night, making your way to the fields at the edge of town, and hitching a ride with the roustabouts who had just finished packing up the big-top tent. After a few years of cleaning up...
