by Stephanie Kraft | Jun 17, 2010 | News
The Jason Vassell case, which drew hundreds of people from Amherst and beyond to protest the actions of the Northwest District Attorney’s office (see “The Eve of Instruction,” Feb. 12, 2009), has been concluded. The black UMass student who stabbed...
by Stephanie Kraft | Jun 17, 2010 | News
Without much fanfare, a movement to keep the Electoral College from undermining the popular vote in presidential elections is gaining ground. The drive for electoral votes that gave us a president not elected by popular vote in 2000—and that has turned...
by Maureen Turner | Jun 17, 2010 | News
At Margaret Christie’s home, there are goats and sheep and chickens and, periodically, pigs. Her family raises almost all of the vegetables, and most of the fruit, that they eat over the course of the year—fresh in season, frozen or canned or otherwise...
by Tom Vannah | Jun 17, 2010 | News
A much-anticipated study of biomass by the Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences has found that burning wood to make electricity is potentially worse for the environment than burning coal. The Manomet study, commissioned by the state Executive Office of Energy and...
by Stephanie Kraft | Jun 18, 2010 | News
Bernie Sanders, the Independent (and self-styled socialist) U.S. senator from Vermont, has given the country a present. It was planned as a Fourth of July present, but it’s ready ahead of schedule. It seems that last Christmas, Sanders was doing some Christmas...
