by Maureen Turner | Aug 13, 2009 | News
From the moment Springfield Republican reporter Stephanie Barry christened it "Wienergate," the battle between hot dog vendor John Verducci and the Sarno administration has proved irresistible to punsters and word-play aficionados across the city, with the...
by Our Readers | Aug 13, 2009 | News
Save New World TheaterI am writing in response to the announcement of the planned suspension of New World Theater [Art in Paradise, August 6, 2009]. The University of Massachusetts has been my neighbor since I entered first grade at Mark's Meadow Elementary in...
by Alan Bisbort | Aug 13, 2009 | News
On many Saturday mornings, I load the trunk of my car with whatever used books have piled up in my basement and drive to Whitlock's in Woodbridge or Niantic Book Barn in Niantic or, if I get a really early start, to the Pioneer Valley to visit Valley Books in...
by Stephanie Kraft | Aug 13, 2009 | News
President Obama's biggest common-touch coup to date is the Cash for Clunkers program, which was so popular that instead of running until fall, it crashed like a speeding SUV into its original limit of $1 billion within a week. On the environmental side, the early...
by Maureen Turner | Aug 13, 2009 | News
A government land-taking is invariably sticky business, filled with the drama of angry landowners, threats of litigation, nervous politicians.That's certainly the case in Springfield, where the city appears poised—perhaps—to use its power of eminent...
