by Maureen Turner | Mar 4, 2010 | News
The four-year financial projection released last week by Springfield’s new chief financial officer was not a pretty picture. Using “conservative” estimates that include level funding for city departments, the report projects that the city faces a...
by Maureen Turner | Mar 4, 2010 | News
Tom Rooke was in the race early, announcing a year ago that he planned to run for Hampden County District Attorney regardless of whether incumbent Bill Bennett planned to stay in the race. But now the Springfield attorney has changed course, announcing that he’s...
by Stephanie Kraft | Mar 9, 2010 | News
The final chapter may be opening in dealings between the state of Vermont and Entergy, the company that in 2002 bought the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant at Vernon, near Brattleboro. In an era when aging American nukes were being bought up at fire sale prices,...
by Tom Sturm | Mar 9, 2010 | News
After a long, drawn-out back-and-forth battle with Vermont Yankee nuclear plant owner Entergy, the Vermont State Senate voted Feb. 24 not to extend the facility’s license to operate beyond March of 2012. The 26 to 4 vote marks the first action of its kind in...
by Mark Roessler | Mar 9, 2010 | News
Since 2007, Entergy, the New Orleans-based company that owns the beleaguered Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant, has been planning to spin off its six northeastern facilities into an independent company, Enexus Energy Corp. On February 24, after evidence of leaking...
