by Mark Roessler | Nov 11, 2010 | News
Spying on the citizenry used to be a lot harder. Sifting through the patriots to find the radicals required elbow grease and Senate subcommittee hearings. Sometimes you actually had to have personal contact with the suspect and do some legwork. Put a tail on the...
by Mark Roessler | Nov 11, 2010 | News
Sitting at a large table in the front hall of her well-preserved Victorian home in Northampton, Lilly Lombard faces a sea of pamphlets, maps and illustrations. They all depict an empty stretch of floodplain land across town that is fertile with possibility. Lombard is...
by Tom Vannah | Nov 11, 2010 | News
For much of the year, Deval Patrick’s chances at re-election looked iffy at best. For one thing, Patrick had suffered a number of obvious political setbacks almost from the very instant he was sworn in as governor in 2007. For another, he was facing some tall,...
by Steve Kramer | Nov 11, 2010 | News
My father’s war diary is a faded blue booklet of approximately 30 pages. I did not know it even existed until the day he died, when I found myself looking through one of his old filing cabinets. My father, Harvey B. Kramer, had been a lawyer and a judge in...
by Stephanie Kraft | Nov 11, 2010 | News
The excitement of election night may wear off, but the new political alignments now create their own hustle and bustle. Republicans win the House; Democrats hold the Senate. House Speaker-presumptive John Boehner wipes tears of joy from his eyes and gets ready to plan...
