by Maureen Turner | Oct 13, 2011 | News
Richard Gardner knows as well as anyone the complaints and frustrations of people who use public buses. He drives for the PVTA, on a route that passes through the center of Springfield into Indian Orchard and then Ludlow. Bus drivers are on the front line in mass...
by Maureen Turner | Nov 3, 2011 | News
Turnout at Springfield’s Sept. 20 preliminary election was dismally low: just 14.7 percent of voters cast ballots that day to narrow the field of three mayoral candidates to two, and the field of 13 at-large city councilor candidates to 10, in advance of the...
by Pete Redington | Oct 13, 2011 | News
Earlier this month, an estimated 700 Occupy Wall Street protesters were arrested while attempting to cross New York’s famed Brooklyn Bridge. It was one of the largest demonstrations to date by the amorphous “Other 99 percent” representing the...
by Our Readers | Nov 10, 2011 | News
Pregnant in Prison I had occasion to read a recent article in the Valley Advocate entitled “Birth Behind Bars,” dated September 22, 2011 and written by Maureen Turner, and I felt compelled to set the record straight. I am a 28-year veteran of the...
by Tom Vannah and Mark Roessler | Oct 20, 2011 | News
On a rainy morning in mid-October, the two candidates for mayor in Northampton arrived at the Advocate’s office before 8 a.m. Each man came alone—no campaign staff, no audience. For the next two hours, City Council president and acting mayor David...
