by Maureen Turner | Mar 11, 2010 | News
Springfield has joined Holyoke in signaling its support of a new approach to trash management, one that shifts the burden of dealing with hard-to-recycle trash from municipalities (and taxpayers) to the manufacturers that make the products and packaging in the first...
by Stephanie Kraft | Mar 11, 2010 | News
If you grew up during the Cold War, you notice a disconnect in public debate these days that’s monumental, like an elephant in the room. Why do those who shout “socialist” at the Obama administration—who are either so genuinely frightened or...
by James Heflin | Mar 11, 2010 | News
Amherst artist Matthew Mitchell’s project to document those whose lives have been affected by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, 100 Faces of War Experience, just got a big boost. (The project was the subject of a cover story, “The Emotional Awareness of...
by Our Readers | Mar 11, 2010 | News
Celebrating Vote on Nuclear Plant On February 24, the Vermont Senate voted 26 to 4 not to renew the license of the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant after 2012: a powerful and exhilarating “No!” to years of mismanagement and neglect. Unless the Senate reverses...
by Mark Roessler | Mar 11, 2010 | News
Last week, a bill sponsored by Keene Democrat Steven Lindsey proposing some measures to decriminalize small amounts of marijuana reached the floor of the New Hampshire House, seven months after Governor John Lynch vetoed a bill legalizing the medical use of the plant....
