No One Told Me: #896

by | Sep 28, 2010 | Standing In The Shadows

I have, over the years, thought that a great little book—the kind people buy when they have no idea what else to give as a gift—would be essentially a list. Title: 1000 Things About Parenthood No One Ever Told You. Here’s #896: You do not remain the...

Paying Their Share

by | Sep 28, 2010 | News

There are more than 45,000 parcels of property within the city of Springfield, with a total value of about $7.5 billion. Of those, 2,266 are legally exempt from paying taxes. That’s not an insignificant figure: the property value of exempt parcels totals $1.47...

Power Plant Fight Heats Up

by | Sep 28, 2010 | News

Opponents of a proposed wood-burning power plant in Springfield—which developers call a “biomass” plant, and detractors refer to by the decidedly less benign term “toxic incinerator”—are continuing to apply political pressure to try...