by Maureen Turner | Aug 27, 2009 | News
Like many Democratic legislators, U.S. Rep. Richard Neal of Springfield has had to contend with his share of conservative hecklers as he's worked his way through his district trying to drum up support for the Obama administration's healthcare reform plans....
by Stephanie Kraft | Aug 27, 2009 | News
The current economic troubles have spawned pictures of streets lined with foreclosed houses, growing homeless populations and people camped out waiting for free exams at health care fairs. Now a new image embodying the current economic difficulties has surfaced in the...
by Mark Roessler | Aug 27, 2009 | News
When I was in college, I traveled to Europe several times. On three occasions I came into close and personal contact with the health care systems of Britain and the Netherlands, and I've never forgotten how profoundly different the experiences were from anything...
by Alan Bisbort | Aug 27, 2009 | News
Octomom will not go gently into the good night of obscurity. When Nadya Suleman, aka Octomom, gave birth to octuplets on Jan. 26, she became a poster girl for American excess. Already a mother of six, she sought, and was provided, fertility treatments so she could...
by Maureen Turner | Aug 27, 2009 | News
The Springfield School Department's central office, at 195 State St., is a handsome old building, but hardly hospitable to modern working conditions. Built at the turn of the last century, the building is run down, with an old elevator that reportedly makes some...
