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...
by Maureen Turner | Apr 15, 2010 | News
The headline of the press release announcing a recent poll on the quality of life in Springfield offered at least a partially positive outlook: “Residents & Express Optimism for the Future.” Indeed, almost half of respondents to the...
by Maureen Turner | Apr 15, 2010 | News
Holyoke is a city that derives a deep sense of pride from its immigrant history. Now a city councilor is asking his colleagues to voice their support for a proposed federal law that would extend rights already given to immigrant partners in straight couples to gay...
by Stephanie Kraft | Apr 15, 2010 | News
Banks are out as middlemen in the student loan industry. That’s one of the changes brought about by the new health care reform legislation. That change saves some $8 billion a year in subsidies flowing from the government to the banks and makes the government...
by Stephanie Kraft | Apr 15, 2010 | News
A bill that would require all bars, and all restaurants serving alcohol, to have liability insurance covering drinking-related injury or death is making its way through the Legislature. It passed the House 145-4 earlier this month, with all Western Massachusetts reps...
