by Maureen Turner | Feb 24, 2011 | News
Last week, parishioners at three closed Western Mass. Catholic churches got some limited good news: in a rather surprising development, the Vatican has overturned the decision by the Diocese of Springfield to close their churches, St. George and St. Patrick, both in...
by Tom Sturm | Feb 24, 2011 | News
It might be the sign that we really are in another depression: a “perfect storm” of frustration, desperate economic situations and the bold, almost revenge-based actions of those whose despair has metastasized into anger, or at least into the audacity of...
by Our Readers | Feb 24, 2011 | News
The Irish Were Egyptians It was only when President Mubarak stepped down that I thought of the Easter Rising of 1916 in Dublin, a week-long uprising that brought about the end of the British Empire as such, and led directly to an Irish Free State, triggering freeing...
by Maureen Turner | Feb 24, 2011 | News
After a good deal of eleventh-hour drama, it looks like the long-awaited renovation of Springfield’s Forest Park Middle School is back on track. The political fallout from the aforementioned drama? That could take a little longer to resolve. Last week, the...
by Stephanie Kraft | Mar 1, 2011 | News
Signs of conflict of interest on the parts of Supreme Court justices have become more flagrant since 2004, when Justice Antonin Scalia was criticized for going duck hunting with Vice President Dick Cheney a few weeks after the Supreme Court agreed to hear a case...
