22 News reports on the issue of childhood obesity.
A few leftover photos I took while wandering around downtown Springfield, taking shots for my “Reinventing Spfld” story… * – - Above is a shot of downtown Springfield’s campanile (Italian for ‘bell tower’), a monument that sits between the twin buildings that house City Hall and Symphony Hall (collectively called “The Municipal Group”). The campanile, [...]
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- – Springfield has been struggling economically for decades, thanks in no small part to the short-sightedness and outright corruption of its past leaders. For over forty years, now, Springfield has been slapping on band aids in response to a changing job market and an ever-increasing poverty rate.
I’ve decided to officially go public with a new phrase/ acronym to describe the work of the right wing media & left wing propagandists in America. From now on when the usual wingnuts come out with some “scandal” or “big story” I will (unless it’s true – even a broken clock is right twice a day) label it [...]
Massachusetts legislators have rejected several efforts to toughen the state’s enforcement of sanctions against illegal immigrants (See Masslive story). The measures, in the form of amendments to the Senate’s budget bill, included such things as the codification of the current policy of denying in-state tuition rights to students who are illegal immigrants, and the creation [...]