Will the Real Drug Reform Candidate Please Stand?

Will the Real Drug Reform Candidate Please Stand?

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...
Halos and Horns

Halos and Horns

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...
Mountain Power

Mountain Power

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...

Letters: What Do You Think?

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...

Letters: What Do You Think?

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...