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Guest column: Richard Neal Auctioning Away Our Seat In Congress

Guest column: Richard Neal Auctioning Away Our Seat In Congress

by David Daley | Apr 24, 2019 | Articles, Between the Lines, Featured, News

Three weeks after U.S. Rep. Richard Neal, D-Springfield, won his 16th term in Congress last November, he threw himself a giant weekend celebration. You probably didn’t get an invitation. Instead, according to the narrative that emerges from Neal’s Federal Election...
Data-focused presenters explain how numbers can be used to fight drugs

Data-focused presenters explain how numbers can be used to fight drugs

by Laurie Loisel | Apr 24, 2019 | Articles, Featured, News

Bumped to the early hour of 7 a.m. because of scheduling  rearrangements forced by President Trump’s mid-day keynote at the RX Drug & Heroin Summit, Hampshire HOPE’s Michele Farry’s presentation nevertheless drew a crowd of 75 people eager to hear about the...
Amherst Canvassing Director Says She Was Fired For Supporting Her Staff

Amherst Canvassing Director Says She Was Fired For Supporting Her Staff

by Dave Eisenstadter | Apr 23, 2019 | Articles, Featured, News

The former director of the Amherst office of for-profit organization Grassroots Campaigns Inc., which raises money for progressive nonprofit organizations, says her employment was terminated earlier this month after she instituted policies she believed supported her...
Clueless Parent: Surviving ‘It’s a Phase’

Clueless Parent: Surviving ‘It’s a Phase’

by Katie Gartner | Apr 23, 2019 | Articles, Clueless Parent, Columns, Featured

After his evening bath, my 2-year-old son entered the living room with a delighted smile on his face. My husband trailed cheerfully behind him, having successfully accessed our son’s figurative reset button. A bath is one of the few things that can put our child in an...
Local drug response program featured in national drug summit

Local drug response program featured in national drug summit

by Laurie Loisel | Apr 23, 2019 | Articles, Featured, News

At the opening plenary on the first day of the RX Drug Abuse & Heroin Summit in Atlanta, Hampshire County’s Drug Addiction Response Team program was among nine initiatives around the country spotlighted as promising community responses in the fight against...
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