Valley Rail: Cash for Clickity-Clackers

Valley Rail: Cash for Clickity-Clackers

Train service will return to towns along the Connecticut River in Massachusetts within the next two years, along with three new station stops: one new and two renovated. Last week, President Obama announced $8 billion dollars in federal stimulus grants for high-speed...
New Hampshire: Howl

New Hampshire: Howl

The New Hampshire state bird is the purple finch. The official state flower is the purple lilac. Last week, the New Hampshire Division of Economic Development announced the designation of the state's first official T-shirt, "Three Wolf Moon," a garment...

Plenty of Protein

Something pretty important happened last week at Protein Attachment Technologies, an Amherst bio-tech firm started by UMass chemistry professors. It just wasn't initially clear what that was. The press release read like one of those weird bridge columns for card...

New York AG: No to Nuke Spinoff

As tension builds about when the Vermont Legislature will vote to allow or deny a 20-year license extension for the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant, it's time to look at what's going on between the state of New York and Yankee's owners, Entergy. Wrapped...

Imperium Watch: Who's Your Daddy?

Saudi Arabian billionaire Al-Waleed bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud has announced that he would support James Murdoch, son of Rupert Murdoch and reportedly an outspoken critic of Israel's treatment of Palestinians, for CEO of News Corporation, the Rupert Murdoch...