by Stephanie Kraft | Mar 26, 2010 | News
There’s a family resemblance between the disaster-ridden Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan and some nuclear plants close to us in here New England. The Fukushima plant is a General Electric Mark I (a design term for the plant’s containment structure)....
by Maureen Turner | Mar 26, 2010 | News
Cynthia Anzalotti makes a persuasive case for all that the Springfield Performing Arts Development Corp. and the two venues it runs—CityStage and Symphony Hall—contribute to the city, starting with some hard figures: over the course a year, the two...
by Maureen Turner | Apr 1, 2010 | News
Like the phoenix rising from the ashes … here comes Chris Asselin again? When the email showed up in my inbox—a quick note alerting me to a story on MassLive.com—I wondered for a moment if it were an early April Fool’s gag: fresh off a stint in...
by Maureen Turner | Apr 1, 2010 | News
Add Springfield to the list of communities pig-piling on the Republican newspaper for its infamous little purple bags. At issue is the Republican’s “Extra” publication, a weekly supplement that the newspaper delivers free to homes once a week....
by Mark Roessler | Apr 1, 2010 | News
Caleb Rounds spends much of his working day alone in a windowless cell of a room, conducting scientific plant research in near-total darkness. It’s just as he’d like it. Even the light switches in the UMass lab where he works have all been installed upside...
