100-Mile Diet Day 14: Damn you JoJo

To keep the 100-Mile diet going in the early days, best not to be near “outsider food.” Who would think there would be temptation at Home Depot? Oh there is, at the hot dog place out in front, Jo Jo's. I figure I'll just check them out, all...

Municipal investments gone bad

As the city of Northampton prepares to enter the bond market to finance its new police station, some cautionary tales seem worthy of consideration. The city plans to sell municipal bonds and pay interest to investors in order to build the station, then pay down the...
Love is Blind

Love is Blind

The Leading Ladies (pictured) boast the status "the only outlet for musical theater on the Smith College campus," and are still going strong as they stage their 14th production this fall. Since 2002, they've put on such classics as Lucky Stiff and A...
An American Voice

An American Voice

A few years ago, as a dedicated listener to the NPR show This American Life, I experienced a giddy radio moment. Having procured my This American Life secret decoder ring, I awaited the voice of Fred Foy, Lone Ranger radio announcer. I unscrambled the secret message...