by Our Readers | May 13, 2010 | News
Plastics Not All Bad I read your article on alternatives to plastics (“Back to Basics,” May 6, 2010) with interest. I agree that there are problems with the use of plastics, but like with so many other things in life, plastics have their positive and...
by Stephanie Kraft | May 13, 2010 | News
It’s an interesting paradox in a day when “socialism” has become a scare word: back in 1955, when Joe McCarthy, the Red Scare and blacklisting still hadn’t gone cold as news, the top 400 earners in America had to pay 51.2 percent of their...
by Maureen Turner | May 13, 2010 | News
As a writer and a home-schooling parent, Liz Castro knows as well as anyone just how valuable public libraries are. Castro and her family make regular trips to tiny Belding Memorial Library, in their hometown of Ashfield; when they need a bigger selection to choose...
by Maureen Turner | May 13, 2010 | News
Last month, as state Rep. John Scibak (D-South Hadley) fought to get included in the House budget an amendment to preserve the Western Mass. Regional Library System, he was surprised by the resistance he encountered from colleagues from the Boston area, he said. That...
by Christine MacDonald | May 13, 2010 | News
As many as one in every five new homes and a quarter of municipal buildings and office towers are expected to qualify as “green” buildings two years from now. But what does that really mean? There is no single standard. Instead, a broad array of...
