by Our Readers | Nov 19, 2009 | News
Nuke Reduction UnsafePresident Obama naively suggests the world can be free of nuclear weapons if the U.S. and Russia commit to arms reduction. Obama is negotiating a new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) with Russia in December which could reduce the U.S. and...
by Our Readers | Nov 12, 2009 | News
Whither Northampton?I'm writing to express my heartfelt sympathy to Northampton for the election results, and for the ongoing erosion of the town I knew and loved. Your leader doesn't understand or care about your beauty, history, and character: you are in a...
by Stephanie Kraft | Nov 19, 2009 | News
The U.S. is expanding its military presence in Colombia, which prompts a look at our ever-growing overseas troop presence and what it is costing us—not just in money.The Institute for Policy Studies finds that we have at least 865 bases outside the United...
by Maureen Turner | Nov 19, 2009 | News
In 2007, disgraced former Springfield City Councilor Frankie Keough was sentenced to three years in federal prison for stealing from Friends of the Homeless, the city shelter he ran. In an apology offered before the court, Keough “expressed a mix of anguish and...
by Stephanie Kraft | Nov 19, 2009 | News
The firestorm surrounding a scheduled speech by radical Ray Luc Levasseur at UMass last week just kept getting bigger and bigger. It was a storm of voices: the voice of Levasseur, a mill worker and Vietnam vet from Maine, who in response to what he saw as killings of...
