by Stephanie Kraft | Apr 22, 2010 | News
With 29 miners dead at the Upper Big Branch coal mine in West Virginia, it’s time to notice what a long story lies behind this disaster. Last year the mine was cited for more than 500 safety violations, up 200 percent from 2008. In the weeks prior to the deaths,...
by Tom Vannah | Apr 22, 2010 | News
As Baystate Republicans gathered in Worcester’s DCU Center last weekend to choose a gubernatorial candidate—former Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare CEO Charles D. Baker came away with a crushing victory over feisty ex-Mass Turnpike official Christy...
by Maureen Turner | Apr 23, 2010 | News
In 2000, veteran activist Lois Ahrens came up with the idea of a course, through Amherst’s Center for Popular Economics, that would look at what we as a society truly pay for our system of mass incarceration—a system that, as of 2009, saw just under 2.3...
by Pete Redington | Apr 23, 2010 | News
Last week, perennial NBA All-Star and five-time champion Kobe Bryant called an official who had just hit him with a technical foul a “fucking faggot.” The offensive slur was captured on national TV, prompting basketball analyst Steve Kerr to suggest,...
by Stephanie Kraft | Apr 23, 2010 | News
A bill to reduce the bargaining power of public employee unions in Massachusetts has been filed in the state Legislature (see related article “It Can Happen Here”). A few weeks ago the Advocate had a short chat with a local labor leader who told us he was...
