by Maureen Turner | Jan 14, 2010 | News
If you saw a man beating another man on the street, you’d probably call the police.But what if the man doing the beating was himself a police officer? Maybe you’d get your video camera. That’s what one unnamed bystander did on Nov. 27, capturing an...
by Stephanie Kraft | Dec 29, 2009 | News
Congresswoman Anna Eshoo has given us all a holiday present. The Democrat from California got a bill through the House that will lower the volume of TV commercials to the level of the program carrying them instead of letting them spout unbearably shrill, disruptive...
by Stephanie Kraft | Jan 14, 2010 | News
What does the familiar assurance that the U.S. is the richest country in the world mean in times like these? Look at individual Americans just now and you see more and more signs of psychically stressful, health-threatening want. One such sign is the growing number of...
by Tom Vannah | Dec 31, 2009 | News
Valley Advocate Senior Writer Maureen Turner sent me a teasing email last week to ask me if I planned to write a farewell column to Larry McDermott, the longtime editor and, since 1999, publisher of the Springfield Republican. "Did I dream this," Turner...
by Maureen Turner | Jan 14, 2010 | News
For Massachusetts voters who are invested in the reform of existing drug policies—and the success of Question 2 on the November 2008 ballot would suggest that's a significant chunk of the electorate—next week's special Senate election presents a...
