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A Loaded Topic: Pioneer Valley firearms community is active, but often hidden

A Loaded Topic: Pioneer Valley firearms community is active, but often hidden

by Pete Redington | Jan 15, 2020 | Articles, Featured, News

The Conway Sportsman’s Club lies at the dead end of a quarter mile dirt driveway, a small cabin of a building flanked by a panoramic wooded hillside containing several shooting ranges, whose ridgeline separates the South and Bear River watersheds. At a shaded table...
Editorial: Problem gambling data collection is coming too late

Editorial: Problem gambling data collection is coming too late

by Dave Eisenstadter | Jan 15, 2020 | Articles, Between the Lines, Featured, News

In a spectacular example of closing the door after the horse has already run off, the city of Springfield now has a new program to collect data on problem gambling, also known as compulsive gambling — nearly a year and a half after the MGM Springfield Casino has...
Bizarro Briefs: Immigration Policies Make Vultures Puke

Bizarro Briefs: Immigration Policies Make Vultures Puke

by Advocate Staff | Jan 15, 2020 | Articles, Bizarro Briefs, Featured, News

Immigration policies make vultures puke It’s not clear if they’re making a statement about the Trump administration’s immigration policies. But whatever the reason, a large group of vultures has been getting the drop, so to speak, on a U.S. Customs and Border...
Monte Belmonte Wines: Trump’s Next Assassination may be the European Wine Market

Monte Belmonte Wines: Trump’s Next Assassination may be the European Wine Market

by Monte Belmonte | Jan 14, 2020 | Articles, Columns, Featured, Monte Belmonte Wines

I wake up very early every morning and one of the first things I do is check my phone for New York Times push notifications to make sure Donald Trump hasn’t destroyed the world. As of my writing this, he hasn’t. But not for lack of trying. I got a push notification...
Cinemadope: Child’s Work

Cinemadope: Child’s Work

by Jack Brown | Jan 14, 2020 | Articles, Arts, Cinemadope, Columns, Featured

Ask most Americans when slavery ended, and you’ll likely hear something about the Civil War and Abe Lincoln. Ask them about the rest of the world, and you may be met by a blank stare. But the truth is that it continues on in our modern era, and that many of us,...
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