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...
by Stephanie Kraft | Nov 19, 2009 | News
Ray Luc Levasseur, in a statement at the U.S. District Courthouse in Springfield in 1989: “I was born into a particular class of workers that was severely exploited and subjected to certain kinds of conditions. And that left an imprint on my mind that I was...
by Maureen Turner | Nov 26, 2009 | News
As legislation goes, the bill is remarkably concise, just 31 words added to an existing law: "The director [of the Mass. Division of Fisheries and Wildlife] shall not impose any project review or permit requirement upon any land unless such land is located within...
by Stephanie Kraft | Nov 26, 2009 | News
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont has just filed a two-page bill.The filing of a two-page bill in Congress should be news no matter what its contents, but in this case the size of the problem the bill addresses is as awe-inspiring as its brevity. Sanders'...
by Maureen Turner | Nov 26, 2009 | News
When Bill Pepin had problems with the Natural Heritage and Endangered Species Program, he approached his local legislators—state Rep. Cheryl Coakley-Rivera and state Sen. Stephen Buoniconti—who filed bills that would dramatically reduce the agency's...
