by Tom Vannah | Nov 10, 2009 | News
My daughter looked up and smiled weakly. I put my hand to her forehead: she was warm, flush with fever."Daddy, H1N1 is the same thing as swine flu, right?" she said. I nodded, wondering where our eight-year-old had picked up that bit of information. Did she...
by Tom Vannah | Nov 10, 2009 | News
In the wake of Clare Higgins' successful re-election bid in Northampton, the South Hadley firm that created the mayor's campaign advertising wasn't too shy to take a little credit, bringing into view the way in which marketing influences...
by Maureen Turner | Nov 10, 2009 | News
It hasn't always been easy to understand the decisions made by the Springfield electorate. This is the city that elected Mike Albano to multiple terms, defeating impressive candidates such as Charlie Ryan (in 1995) and Paul Caron (in 2001); the city that almost...
by Amy Littlefield | Nov 12, 2009 | News
While the nation remains fixated on Obama's health care policy, two federal agencies have addressed perennial health issues: the effects of air pollution and of dosing livestock with antibiotics. The agencies' health-promoting measures have gotten lost in the...
by Tom Vannah | Nov 12, 2009 | News
In an interview after he'd just lost his mayoral bid in Northampton by a mere 344 votes, Michael Bardsley didn't exactly sound defeated."I'm feeling very good about things," Bardsley told the Advocate. "It was a very successful campaign in...
