by Stephanie Kraft | Oct 1, 2009 | News
Speech-Less: Tales of a White House Survivor, a new book by Bush 43 speechwriter Matt Latimer, offers vignettes that are riveting for at least two reasons. First, they shed some light on what the president who rigidly stuck to his script and expressed so little of...
by Advocate Staff | Oct 1, 2009 | News
Bourgeois Town Rule Book3-12 Players, Ages 10 – 110Published by the Valley Advocate Games DivisionEdited and designed by Mark RoesslerIllustrated by Standard DesignContributing Editors: Stephanie Kraft, Maureen Turner, Tom VannahComponents1 Rule Book, 2 dice, 8...
by Our Readers | Oct 1, 2009 | News
Biomass Plants Are ClunkersWe are taking gas guzzlers off the road, but poised to subsidize biomass electricity generating plants. The efficiency of biomass incinerators is 15 to 25 percent, meaning 15 to 25 percent of the energy in wood is captured and converted to...
by Tom Sturm | Oct 8, 2009 | News
Mayoral elections are still something of a novelty in Easthampton; until 1996, the city was but a town, and was run by a Board of Selectmen. In that year, the board was dissolved and a City Council formed, and Easthampton elected its first and only mayor, former...
by Tom Vannah | Oct 8, 2009 | News
Bill Dwight apologized repeatedly, trying to put the story to rest. But he also pushed it, used it as fodder for his WHMP radio show. Last week, the former Northampton city councilor and longtime ally of Mayor Clare Higgins opened his radio show at least four times...
