Flying By

I never know quite what to make of the emails I regularly receive from FlyBy News, a Valley-based site with, let’s say, a fin de siecle aesthetic, which embraces many a conspiratorial notion. It says, “Please consider reading all on this page. Otherwise...

A Monday Moment

October seemed to arrive decisively this weekend (the first weekend of the month), all brisk and breezy and somehow snap-your-fingers different. I do not have appropriate anything together: jackets that fit, all the other things we might need momentarily like hats and...

Weigh In On the Mayor's Pay

Should Springfield mayor’s job come with a bigger paycheck?There’s been a move afoot over the last couple of years to raise the mayoral salary from its current $95,000 to something comparable to what a chief executive of a large operation in the private...
Wellness: Blowing Electric Smoke

Wellness: Blowing Electric Smoke

Thanks to technology, kids today can do almost anything—virtually, that is. Once they sign into cyberspace, the rules and boundaries of the real world blur as quickly as a screen saver. Mom always said don’t play ball in the house—unless...