by Hunter Styles | Mar 6, 2019 | Articles, Featured, News
The Daily Hampshire Gazette, one of the oldest newspapers in America, printed its first pages in the summer of 1786. From the start, things were tense in the Western Mass communities it covered. The front page of the earliest surviving issue of the Gazette reports...
by Dave Eisenstadter | Mar 6, 2019 | Articles, Between the Lines, Featured, News
This past week, the state Legislature’s Harm Reduction Commission — the advisory group looking at solutions to the drug epidemic — released its report. As expected, the commission, which is made up of current and former drug users as well as doctors, government...
by Dave Eisenstadter and Chris Goudreau | Mar 6, 2019 | Articles, Bizarro Briefs, Featured, News
Polly wants a hit of opium The farmers who grow fields of poppies in India to produce opium, which is sold on the medical market, often have to contend with seasons of uneven rainfall — but there’s another unpredictable factor that has been wreaking havoc on the crop...
by Fran Ryan | Mar 5, 2019 | Articles, Featured, Wellness
Remember playing shoeless in the grass as a kid, or feeling the earth under your feet as you ambled down your favorite path or sat barefoot by a lake or around a campfire? For some of us, those carefree days of foot freedom are but a fond memory. However, there are...
by Yana Tallon-Hicks | Mar 4, 2019 | Articles, Columns, Featured, The V-Spot
Hi Yana, I’m a transgender male, no bottom surgery yet (there’s a good chance it’s not even in the cards for me, anyway) and I’ll be starting HRT (hormone replacement therapy) soon. I’ve always been very frank with partners that I’m not comfortable with being touched,...
