Residents file protest petition

by | Sep 23, 2009 | Northampton Redoubt

About 27 property owners in the Glendale Road area of the city filed the following protest petition (PDF) last Thursday to the City Council. It is their belief that the petition will require a 3/4s vote of the City Council in order to alter the heavy public use zoning...

A Real Dowd-er

by | Sep 23, 2009 | Cherchez La Femme

In May, I blogged about this article by NYT Op-Ed columnist Ross Douthat. It and many other trend pieces about the unhappiness of women were spawned by a study conducted by UPenn Economists called The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness. It's about how women are...