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Rep. Sabadosa champions immigrant driver’s license bill at discussion in Northampton

Rep. Sabadosa champions immigrant driver’s license bill at discussion in Northampton

by Chris Goudreau | Mar 7, 2019 | Articles, Featured, News

One undocumented woman’s husband was pulled over by a police officer and was asked to present his license. Even though he was obeying the rules of the road, he was arrested for not having a driver’s license. This was one common story from a group of local undocumented...
Resist Like It’s 1786: Modern protest movements have echoes of Shays’ Rebellion

Resist Like It’s 1786: Modern protest movements have echoes of Shays’ Rebellion

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...
Bizarro Briefs: Polly Wants a Hit of Opium

Bizarro Briefs: Polly Wants a Hit of Opium

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...
Bizarro Briefs: No Bananas Stolen

Bizarro Briefs: No Bananas Stolen

by Chris Goudreau | Feb 26, 2019 | Articles, Bizarro Briefs, Featured, News

No bananas stolen Police in Sulphur, Louisiana, arrested a man wearing a gorilla suit, who allegedly broke into a home and hid underneath a mattress before his arrest. According to local news outlets in Louisiana, officers saw the costumed man walking through yards...
Bizarro Briefs: Nazi Art Not a Winner

Bizarro Briefs: Nazi Art Not a Winner

by Dave Eisenstadter | Feb 15, 2019 | Articles, Bizarro Briefs, Featured, News

Nazi art not a winner Adolf Hitler can’t seem to catch a break. First, his quest for world domination hit a snag in the 1940s when the Allies defeated him in World War II, and now, no one wants watercolor paintings attributed to him. None of the five paintings...
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