The city giveth and the city taketh away

by | Aug 15, 2007 | Urban Compass

A number of press releases from the Springfield mayor’s office crossed the wires late last week, covering the matters of the city’s trash collection, the facelift reconstruction about to take place on Main Street downtown, and the demolition of a vacant...
Blood Relations

Blood Relations

by | Aug 15, 2007 | Stage

Two-HeadedBy Julie Jensen, directed by Marc Geller. Through August 18, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Stockbridge, (413) 298-5576.In September 1857, a wagon train bound for California camped in southwestern Utah near a Mormon settlement. The fanatical and paranoid Mormon...
The World This Week: Land Sakes

The World This Week: Land Sakes

by | Aug 15, 2007 | News

It's a cliché often spouted by real estate agents: "Land…they ain't making any more of it."When a real estate agent says we're running out of land, he/she has a different reaction from the 99% of us not involved in real estate....

Imperium Watch ? August 16, 2007

by | Aug 15, 2007 | News

It seems to induce only yawns or indifference, but the Bush family has some substantial skeletons in the closet. The latest chapter revealed in the Bush saga has to do with George W’s grandfather Prescott Bush, already implicated in trading with the enemy during...