by Stephanie Kraft | Jul 16, 2009 | News
The recent coup that removed Manuel Zelaya as president of Honduras has brought the School of the Americas, now known as WHINSEC (Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation), back into the news. The coup, which brought protest from farmers, unions and...
by Maureen Turner | Jul 16, 2009 | News
Like many communities, Springfield has an uneasy relationship with the billboards that dot its neighborhoods and ring its highways. To some, the boards are an aesthetic affront, cluttering the visual landscape of a city that already struggles to get outsiders to see...
by Maureen Turner | Jul 16, 2009 | News
Have you heard that Holyoke police chief Anthony Scott has a bit of a problem with judges?We're going to assume you have. Indeed, unless you've spent the last several years living under a newspaper- and TV-free rock, it would be hard to miss Scott's...
by Stephanie Kraft | Jul 16, 2009 | News
As the green energy economy takes its first shaky steps, questions arise about what kind of energy is really green. Those are not just intellectual questions. In the Valley, where four new power plants and an expansion of another are currently being proposed,...
by Stephanie Kraft | Jul 16, 2009 | News
John Perkins wrote the book (literally—it's Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, Plume Books, 2004) on the U.S.'s systematic, government- and corporate-sponsored exploitation of other countries for their natural resources. The recent violence in Peru,...
