by On Springfield | Sep 13, 2012 | On Springfield
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...
by Chris Rohmann | Sep 13, 2012 | Stage
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...
by Stephanie Kraft | Sep 13, 2012 | News
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...
by Tom Sturm | Sep 13, 2012 | News
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...
by Pete Redington | Sep 13, 2012 | News
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...