by Maureen Turner | Dec 24, 2009 | News
The news last week that the state commissioner of education wants to revoke the charter for Springfield's Robert M. Hughes Academy for MCAS cheating was a reminder of just where the ever-mounting pile of scandals at the school began.Back in November, the charter...
by Mark Roessler | Jan 12, 2010 | News
On Monday, January 4, 2010, a Vermont judge overturned a permit for a planned museum celebrating the life and work of famed children's book illustrator Tasha Tudor.Tasha Tudor died in June, 2008 at the age of 92. In addition to writing and illustrating many books...
by Stephanie Kraft | Dec 24, 2009 | News
Four Valley women, Paki Wieland of Northampton, Ruth Hooke of Amherst, Ellen Graves of West Springfield and Priscilla Lynch of Conway, will travel to Gaza to participate in the Gaza Freedom March December 31. The march commemorates the Israeli invasion of Gaza last...
by Robert B. Reich | Jan 12, 2010 | News
The Labor Department just reported that 85,000 jobs were lost in December. The official rate of unemployment (which measures how many people are looking for jobs) held steady at 10 percent nonetheless. That's because so many more people have stopped looking....
by Stephanie Kraft | Dec 24, 2009 | News
Last Sunday, bells, drums, gongs and horns at churches, synagogues and mosques the world over sounded 350 times to tell the world to lower the volume of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to 350 parts per million. It was a plea for global cooperation to control climate...
