by Tom Sturm | Aug 27, 2009 | News
Lately I seem to keep getting spam emails from “Patients United Now,” brought to me by the Americans for Prosperity Foundation. The emails they send promote scare-tactic lobbying and advertising based on flimsy doomsday scenarios in which they foretell...
by Maureen Turner | Sep 1, 2009 | News
The Western Mass. Single Payer Network and Western Mass. Jobs with Justice have thrown their support behind a national boycott of Whole Foods.The boycott was sparked by a recent op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal by Whole Foods CEO John Mackey, which sounds a very...
by Mark Roessler | Sep 3, 2009 | News
On September 4, 1949, 60 years ago this Labor Day weekend, as they were leaving an outdoor holiday concert, the folk singers who wrote "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" and "This Land is Your Land" were part of a crowd ambushed by an angry mob....
by Stephanie Kraft | Sep 3, 2009 | News
At press time, tensions in the battle over health care reform were pulling to the max in every direction. As one estimate warned that health insurance would cost nearly twice as much in 2020 as in 2008, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) was saying that the president might...
by Maureen Turner | Sep 3, 2009 | News
To look at the final numbers, it's hard to imagine that there was ever anything to worry about: last Monday, the Springfield City Council unanimously voted to take the former Mason Square library building, at 765 State St., by eminent domain.In fact, the outcome...
