by Jillian Fink | Feb 11, 2010 | News
In the fall of 2008, Williams College announced the replacement of student loans with grants and direct scholarships, a program designed to help students to prevent an excessive accumulation of debt while pursuing higher education. Now, however, it appears that the...
by Maureen Turner | Feb 16, 2010 | News
In 2006, Massachusetts legislators passed a law that prohibited the sale of thermostats that contain mercury. They weren't alone; over the past decade, 15 states have passed similar laws, in response to increasing concerns about the serious public health risks...
by Mark Roessler | Feb 16, 2010 | News
On the morning of February 9, the Holyoke Fire Department responded to reports of a fire in the octagonal house on the corner of Hampden and Parker streets. The fire broke out in the attic, and destroyed much of that and the second floor. Owner David Casali had been...
by Our Readers | Feb 18, 2010 | News
Keep Nuke RunningSo the owners and managers of Vermont Yankee cover up problems and downplay risks—this is my surprised face. The solution, however, is not shutting the plant down. What would take its place? A coal plant? Even so-called clean coal is far dirtier...
by Stephanie Kraft | Feb 18, 2010 | News
As the Vermont Department of Health and the operators of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant agree that tritium-contaminated water from the plant is moving toward the Connecticut River, a plan to bundle a relicensed Vermont Yankee with five other plants owned by...
