by Stephanie Kraft | Aug 12, 2010 | News
It’s official: the FBI can exercise surveillance over people even when there is no evidence or particular suspicion that a crime has been, is being or will be committed. This came recently from the top cop himself: FBI director Robert Mueller. Mueller was...
by Our Readers | Aug 12, 2010 | News
Raw Milk Conversion Thank you for your recent coverage of the raw milk issue. I grew up reading about the horrors of bacteria in milk through advertisements akin to the “Reefer Madness” videos of the ’60s. However, I am now a firm believer in raw...
by Maureen Turner | Aug 12, 2010 | News
Jill Stein, the Green-Rainbow party’s candidate for governor, held a press conference last week to announce that she’d gathered enough signatures to qualify for the November ballot. Too bad the press barely paid attention. Stein—who ran for the same...
by Tom Vannah | Aug 12, 2010 | News
If Beacon Hill existed only in a TV sitcom and the politicians working there were an ensemble of actors hired to spoof the machinations of a blue-state legislature, the recent wrangling over a casino bill would be just another hilarious turn in an amusing but very...
by Jason Lasky | Aug 17, 2010 | News
“The amount of disrespect being shown to Barack Obama is beyond belief,” offers Lenny Kates, a retired social worker from Pittsfield, who is countering the negativity with a message of his own. Once a week, Kates spends his day in the middle of a busy...
