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File under same-old, same-old:Richie Neal remains Springfield’s congressman, after handily winning his Democratic primary. Jim Welch holds on to the Hampden Senate seat, with a strong victory over Melvin Edwards, meaning Edwards will stay on as Ward 3’s...
StageStruck: Cover-ups and Dis-coveries

StageStruck: Cover-ups and Dis-coveries

It’s a playwriting axiom that one of the mainsprings of drama is the notion of concealing and revealing: guilty secrets, bloody ambitions, baffling mysteries, furtive passions. All four of the plays I saw in the last full week of the region’s summer...

NFL:Red Flag on the Play

Is the NFL on the move toward its own brand of socialism? A study by the North American Association of Sports Economists found that of 28 National Football League stadiums built between 1990 and 2011: *23 had 50 percent or more of their building costs paid by the...

Between the Lines: The Court of Appeal

Whether you view government as the last foil to corporate greed or as a progressively more annoying and intrusive “nanny state,” a U.S. Appeals court in Washington, D.C. has just rendered a decision that (stunningly) reeks of common sense. Striking down an...

Actually, RNC, We (Taxpayers) Built This!

Ever married to their “Job Creators” mantra, Republicans gave their national convention the theme “We Built This.” The phrase comes in response to a speech President Obama gave earlier this summer, in which he (much like Senate candidate...