by Our Readers | Oct 15, 2009 | News
Nukes, Weapons Linked It is an honor to have a U.S. president awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. It has occurred rarely in history. It is important to remember in the discussion of the control or abolition of nuclear weapons, though, that nuclear plants play a critical...
by Stephanie Kraft | Oct 15, 2009 | News
Well-watered farmland and forest like the Valley's is becoming rarer and rarer in the U.S. and the world. Developers and even governments—China's is one example—are buying agricultural land in other countries—a practice which, if not...
by Maureen Turner | Oct 15, 2009 | News
In 1981, Dick Evans, a Northampton attorney and long-time advocate for drug law reform, drafted a marijuana legalization bill "just to see what one would look like," he said.Evans got the bill before the state Legislature via the right to petition, a law...
by Our Readers | Oct 15, 2009 | News
I really loved your board game, and thought when I opened your paper to glimpse it that great minds think alike. I have a similar game in mind, "Stateball," that will be played like fantasy baseball but will auction state's economies, then follow them...
by Tom Vannah | Oct 22, 2009 | News
He's a grandstander. A panderer, covering his own lack of significant accomplishments by carping at the mayor and his colleagues on the City Council as they do their best to guide the city through difficult times with ever-diminishing resources and an increasingly...
