by Maureen Turner | Jul 15, 2010 | News
The new Springfield city budget has been finalized for a couple of weeks now—but don’t expect the political aftershocks it created to die down any time soon. The municipal budget process has never exactly been smooth sailing for the Sarno administration....
by Maureen Turner | Jul 15, 2010 | News
Franklin County peace activists are expecting some unwelcome guests at their weekly vigil this Saturday: local Tea Partiers. The peace vigil, which has been held regularly on the Greenfield Common since 2003, has been selected as the site of a competing rally on July...
by Tom Vannah | Jul 20, 2010 | News
After years of controversy and mounting public opposition to a proposed expansion of the city’s municipal landfill, Northampton city councilors last week approved an ordinance banning the development or expansion of landfills over aquifers and water supply...
by Maureen Turner | Jul 20, 2010 | News
It’s been almost a year since the Springfield City Council voted to take the former Mason Square Library building at 765 State Street by eminent domain and restore it to its original purpose. And the Springfield Urban League—which bought the building, in a...
by Stephanie Kraft | Jul 22, 2010 | News
The ancient oath of Hippocrates, which underpins medical ethics, has a long reach. In the wake of the debate about torture that grew out of the Bush administration’s management of Guantanamo and the war in Iraq, the spirit of that oath is stirring up controversy...
