by Stephanie Kraft | Sep 17, 2009 | News
A recovery that may soon show the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) on the upswing without a commensurate increase in new jobs: how is that possible?Tight credit is partly responsible, but so is the fact that the top layers of the economy are soaking up the money, not...
by Advocate Staff | Sep 17, 2009 | News
I'm writing regarding this year's Valley Advocate Grand Band Slam. In his "A Slammin' Time" article (Aug. 27, 2009), James Heflin writes about what a wealth of music and musicians there are in this Valley, and about how hard it was for the...
by Alan Bisbort | Sep 17, 2009 | News
Dahr Jamail is the embodiment of the citizen journalist. Though raised in the Republican enclave of Houston, the self-made reporter "unplugged from that matrix" at a young age to think for himself. When the Iraq War began in March, 2003, he was working as a...
by Stephanie Kraft | Sep 17, 2009 | News
Environment or economy? It's a false antithesis. Without a sound environment, sooner or later there will be no economy. Typical media reporting that tends to pigeonhole topics rather than illuminating relationships between them reinforce this false dichotomy. Now...
by Maureen Turner | Sep 24, 2009 | News
After a dozen years covering the protracted battle for ward representation in Springfield—the relentless work by reformers, the infuriatingly evasive tactics employed by city councilors determined to kill the effort, the plan's eventual 3-to-1 victory on the...
