Playing Pepper Oct. 12, 2010

by | Oct 14, 2010 | Northampton Redoubt

Just Wondering: IF either men or women should be required to register for Selective Service. HOW much money Medicare and Medicaid fraud is costing Northampton citizens. Perhaps a City Council Resolution is in order? WHO decided that the first line of deliberation...
Dancing With the Devil

Dancing With the Devil

by | Oct 14, 2010 | Stage

When director Julianne Boyd starting doing research for her production of The Crucible, which plays this month at Barrington Stage Company, she went to the source. Arthur Miller’s most-performed play (another production opens next weekend at the New England...

Between the Lines: Stein or Patrick?

by | Oct 14, 2010 | News

Just as we stepped onto my colleague’s front porch last weekend, ready to rush off to an event in Chicopee, a neatly but casually dressed middle-aged man carrying a clipboard climbed the stairs to meet us. I did my best to brush him off. “So sorry…...

The Price of Activism

by | Oct 14, 2010 | News

Activists who abandon normal lives to serve political and social causes suffer in many ways. They may lose their lives; they may go to prison; they may have trouble making ends meet and keeping their families together. Their suffering is the stuff books are made of....