Legislating Toxicity

Legislating Toxicity

These days, even a trip to Target can feel fraught with peril.First item on your shopping list: sippy cups for your toddler. Will they have the ones made without bisphenol A (or BPA), which the state of Connecticut recently banned from use in food containers and baby...

Between the Lines: Sleeping On It

At home, my extended period of recovery is wearing thin. My wife and daughter are happy to have me back, but after nearly a year, they've begun wondering when I'm going to be done healing. Truth is, I was feeling good, caught up on a year's worth of lost...
PVPA and Brick: To Be or Not to Be?

PVPA and Brick: To Be or Not to Be?

The evening of Tuesday, June 23 saw a vast show of student, staff and parental support for Pioneer Valley Performing Arts (PVPA) High School Executive Director Robert Brick at a 6 p.m. meeting of that institution's board of trustees. The standing-room-only meeting...

Letters: What Do You Think?

Unions Can Be CoerciveI'm writing in response to Ronald Rene Patenaude's letter of 25 June 2009 entitled "Nonprofits Bust Unions Too." I'm writing because there are two sides to every coin, and I represent the other side of the argument. When I...

The World This Week: Postal Going

Have you noticed anything strange lately about your local post office? For years, one of the big issues in my town was the need for a larger facility to accommodate the popularity of the services offered and the SUVs of customers clogging the tiny parking lot at the...