by Maureen Turner | Jun 29, 2010 | News
An effort to allow county sheriffs to charge fees to inmates has failed, after fierce opposition from critics who say the policy would end up hurting inmates’ families and make it that much harder for people to re-enter society after their sentences end. In...
by Maureen Turner | Jul 1, 2010 | News
If you happened to notice a 20-foot-tall baby bottle hanging around the streets of Northampton last week, don’t panic—the city has not been overtaken by a band of giant marauding infants. The oversized, inflatable bottle was brought to the city by...
by Gwynne Dyer | Jul 1, 2010 | News
General Stanley McChrystal deserved to be fired as the U.S. commander in Afghanistan because he and his staff were openly contemptuous of their civilian superiors. It’s a popular attitude among the dimmer sort of military officers, but for a theater commander to...
by Our Readers | Jul 1, 2010 | News
Dog’s Life—or Death In a town populated by people as supposedly progressive and well educated as Northampton’s, I’m daily shocked to see the treatment meted out to Northampton’s dogs! Tied to parking meters on Main Street, unattended, in...
by Maureen Turner | Jul 1, 2010 | News
Ron Patenaude wears his heart not on his sleeve, but just below it. On his left arm is a tattoo reading “UAW Local 2322,” the labor union to which Patenaude has belonged for the past 12 years, the last six as president. On his right arm is another tattoo,...
