by Advocate Staff | Dec 31, 2009 | News
Horns to Springfield State Rep. Cheryl Coakley-Rivera and West Springfield State Sen. Stephen Buoniconti for their so-called attempts to "improve" the state's endangered species protection program. In truth, the bills pushed by these two urban...
by Tom Vannah | Jan 14, 2010 | News
On what had seemed like a nice spring day in April, 1999, Jim Schaefer and his wife, Elissa Anne Henderson, were climbing to the summit at Berkshire East Ski Resort in Charlemont—Jim with skis, Elissa on snowshoes—when Elissa had an asthma attack. Shocked...
by Our Readers | Dec 31, 2009 | News
False Alarms:Chris Matera's vision of Massachusetts being clearcut at an ever-accelerating pace (Letters, Dec. 10, 2009) is simply false. Endless repetition of the claim does not make it any more true. Matera's photographic sleights-of-hand, fanciful rhetoric...
by Our Readers | Jan 14, 2010 | News
Give It Up for MassHealthMy letter is in part a response to those who advocate for single payer health care and claim that, like health reform in Massachusetts, congressional health reform is a sham. First, I too agree that single payer is the way to go. It is just...
by Maureen Turner | Dec 31, 2009 | News
In response to a recent article on our "On Springfield" blog about the controversial proposal by Palmer Renewable Energy to build a $150 million wood-burning plant on Page Boulevard—a plan that activists argue poses significant public health and...
