by Maureen Turner | Apr 9, 2010 | News
Last month, the Springfield School Department announced some embarrassing news: due to a payroll error, about 1,400 city teachers had been receiving more money than they were due in their paychecks. The overpayments, which stretched back to September, totaled about...
by Ted Rall | Apr 9, 2010 | News
“It was Bill Clinton who recognized that the categories of conservative and liberal played to Republican advantage and were inadequate to address our problems,” President Obama wrote in his book The Audacity of Hope. “Clinton’s third...
by Story and photos by Mark Roessler | Apr 13, 2010 | News
South Hadley’s Dinosaurland first opened its gates in 1950, when Carlton Nash quit his day job at the Holyoke Water Power Company and decided to stake everything he had on a set of dinosaur tracks he’d discovered in the woods of South Hadley nearly 20...
by Maureen Turner | Apr 13, 2010 | News
As the governor’s race heats up, prepare for the various campaigns to begin making the requisite token gestures toward us forgotten folks out here in the western part of the commonwealth. (Note to the Patrick/Murray ticket: Worcester is not Western Mass. And...
by Maureen Turner | Apr 15, 2010 | News
Back in February, Springfield City Hall offered a promising timeline for returning full library services to the Mason Square neighborhood: City Solicitor Ed Pikula told the Advocate at the time that the Springfield Urban League would need to vacate its building at 765...
