City Focuses on Homeless Families

On the eve of Springfield’s “Project Homeless Connect,” Mayor Domenic Sarno announced today that two local agencies that serve the homeless population have been awarded $1.7 million in federal grants: the housing-assistance agency HAP, Inc., and...
A Healing Hope

A Healing Hope

In the Lodz ghetto in Poland, home to as many as 204,000 Jews during World War II, there were 170 doctors, as well as a few nurses and midwives, according to diaries and memoirs. Like all the others, the Jewish healers lived with the daily terror of being shipped off...
StageStruck: Sit-Down Comedy

StageStruck: Sit-Down Comedy

The opening scene of The Porch is one of the out-and-out funniest and most perfectly formed comic set pieces I've ever seen: three elderly ladies sitting on wicker chairs, two of them trying to explain to the other, without getting too graphic, exactly what it was...

Between the Lines: To Make Your Vote Count More

There's a flaw in our election system that's frustrated thoughtful voters for a long time. It's the winner-take-all structure of our balloting: the fact that you find yourself having to worry about the "horse race" level of the election to feel...