by Our Readers | Aug 27, 2009 | News
I feel sorry for Conor Hennessey (Letters, August 6, 2009) because I just had a free dinner given by the wonderful people of the Greenfield Farmer's Market. But then again, events like that could send us "down the slippery road of collectivism," to quote...
by Tom Vannah | Aug 27, 2009 | News
If the Northampton City Council cares what residents think, it will reject the direction taken last week by three of its members in sponsoring a non-binding ballot question about the city's plans to expand its municipal landfill. A working draft of a possible...
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....
