by Our Readers | Aug 18, 2011 | News
A Windfall for Biomass? When a crisis occurs, it is important that decision makers take a moment to think before reacting in order to move forward rationally rather than making poor decisions based on fearmongering and opportunism by vested interests. Currently we are...
by Stephanie Kraft | Aug 18, 2011 | News
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont has been on the warpath lately about the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Congress’ lone socialist, officially known as an Independent, was so indignant early this summer when he learned that the NRC had taken a secret vote...
by Stephanie Kraft | Aug 18, 2011 | News
Trucks: they bring us everything we use day by day, and they use 20 percent of the fuel consumed by transportation (which is more than two-thirds of fossil fuel used in the U.S.). They also spew 20 percent of vehicle emissions. Now, for the first time, the country has...
by Stephanie Kraft | Aug 18, 2011 | News
The Valley’s two representatives in Congress, both Democrats—John Olver (Amherst) and Richard Neal (Springfield)—refused to vote for the debt ceiling and deficit reduction bill that passed Congress last week. So did all the other Massachusetts...
by Stephanie Kraft | Aug 18, 2011 | News
The Verizon workers that took to the streets last week in Valley towns and elsewhere in the Northeast have more to deal with than just their employer. “The Verizon Strike: Tone-Deaf,” an editorial that appeared August 10 in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review,...
