by Our Readers | Jun 11, 2009 | News
Doing Spector ProudAs an avid reader of the Advocate and a critic of the choices Paul Spector has made as a Northampton city councilor, I was interested to see what other avid readers could offer as support for the councilor. Peter Hirschman and Phoebe Sheldon, in...
by Alan Bisbort | Jun 17, 2009 | News
Don't look now, fellow GM owners, but we may be able to get out of this economic mess more easily than any of the so-called experts predicted. Mine eyes beheld a miracle this past week: General Motors sold its Hummer brand to a Chinese manufacturer, Sichuan...
by Tom Vannah | Jun 18, 2009 | News
Turns out, I have something in common with General Motors' new CEO: neither of us knows much about cars.Funny, I don't think I even made the short list when President Obama was looking for an industry outsider to bring new leadership to the troubled automaker....
by Maureen Turner | Jun 18, 2009 | News
Metal Fatigue: American Bosch and the Demise of Metalworking in the Connecticut River Valley. By Robert Forrant (Baywood Publishing, 2009)Robert Forrant was braced for a rough day on Feb. 4, 1986. That day, he and a group of fellow members of the International Union...
by Mark Roessler | Jun 18, 2009 | News
A recent Valley Advocate story on Palmer's Union Station ("The Town of Seven Railroads," June 4, 2009), prematurely declared the demise of the Connecticut River Railroad Station in Holyoke. A number of readers pointed out that the 1883 passenger depot...
