by Stephanie Kraft | Aug 26, 2010 | News
Maybe its size wasn’t the only reason the government didn’t want AIG to fail. The company has a lot more going on than just insurance. Something worth knowing about AIG is that it was founded by an uncle of the Kenneth Starr who served as special...
by Maureen Turner | Aug 26, 2010 | News
The city of Holyoke is poised for somewhat of a building renaissance these days, points out at-large City Councilor Rebecca Lisi. There’s the upcoming expansion and renovation of the city library, the new senior center, the long-awaited, yet-to-be-sited...
by Mark Roessler | Aug 26, 2010 | News
It’s strange, but when people think “dinosaur,” the Connecticut River Valley rarely rates high on anyone’s list. Still, while several locations across the globe boast productive dinosaur bone fields where paleontologists have exhumed skeletons,...
by Terry Allen | Aug 31, 2010 | News
BP was slow to staunch the hemorrhage of oil from the Deepwater Horizon blowout, but it wasted no time applying vast quantities of the dispersant Corexit. By mid-July, BP had released almost 2 million gallons of Corexit into the Gulf ecosystem. BP and Corexit...
by Tom Vannah | Sep 2, 2010 | News
Regular readers of the Valley Advocate may have noticed some changes in the paper in recent years. Over the last several months, we’ve published many letters from readers who vehemently object to at least one of those changes: our decision to stop running This...
