by Daniel Platt | Aug 11, 2011 | News
The driveway leading from the main road out to the Elks Pavilion in West Springfield is long, patchy, and potholed, and as I motored over it on my way to the Western Mass Republican Picnic on July 15, my car bounced up and down like a moon buggy. I passed a row of...
by Senator Bernie Sanders | Aug 11, 2011 | News
A $2.5 trillion deficit-reduction deal brokered by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, House Speaker John Boehner, and President Barack Obama is grotesquely unfair. It also is bad economic policy. In the midst of a terrible recession, it will cost hundreds of...
by Markos Moulitsas | Aug 11, 2011 | News
You know the best way to shrink the deficit? Get Americans to work. When people have paychecks, they pay taxes. Yet, after weeks of hysteria in D.C. over the debt ceiling, the two political parties have done nothing that would actually get people back to work....
by Our Readers | Aug 11, 2011 | News
Double Edge’s Odyssey I was pleased and gratified to read Chris Rohmann’s account of several local artists creating sets and large-scale art installations for Double Edge Theatre’s Odyssey in “Wool Sails in the Sunset,” August 4, 2011. I...
by Maureen Turner | Aug 11, 2011 | News
After years of hard work and political agitation, in 2007, reformers in Springfield achieved a sweet victory: voters approved, by a three-to-one margin, a plan to expand the City Council from its existing nine members, all elected at-large, to include eight members...
