by Alan Bisbort | Jun 30, 2009 | News
On the last day of classes this year at Crosby High School in economically hard-bitten Waterbury, Conn., a fight broke out that spilled onto the street. Police responded with pepper spray, and six students were arrested. Tragedy was averted—for now. Who knows if...
by Maureen Turner | Jun 30, 2009 | News
After five years of overseeing the city's finances, Springfield's Finance Control Board has packed up and moved out this week—leaving behind a politically charged atmosphere that will only intensify as the November election approaches.Among the parting...
by Maureen Turner | Jun 30, 2009 | News
A new state law that went into effect in January ensures that mothers have a right to breastfeed their children in public, without harassment or discrimination. But that doesn't mean everyone knows about or understands the new law, as a recent, much-covered case...
by Mark Roessler | Jun 30, 2009 | News
Firecrackers were my first illicit vice.Long before porn, drink or drugs, at 11 or 12, I was shelling out cold hard cash for things that went ka-blam in the night. I gave my few crumpled dollars to kids a lot older than me who were both allowed to head into New York...
by Stephanie Kraft | Jul 16, 2009 | News
As protests in Peru quiet down after its legislature revoked trade rules that would have opened the way for logging and mining in the high Amazon country (see Imperium Watch, July 2, 2009), a suit leveled against Texaco-Chevron for polluting air, soil and water in...
