…And the World: Syria continues to fall further into chaos following a Friday night slaughter that killed over a hundred civilians in the town of Houla. The event was documented by UN observers, but also shows that the cease-fire proposed by former UN Secretary-General Kofi
First, a note to our readers. We apologize for failing to post on the last two city council meetings. On balance, there was not much lost in our failure, however, we still regret our failure. There is at least one issue that merited some further
…And the World: World leaders have descended upon the United States for talks, first at Camp David, and now in Chicago. G8 leaders met at the Presidential Retreat in Maryland, sans newly re-inaugurated Russian President Vladimir Putin. The G8 summit focused on Syria, Iran and
Our apologies for bringing the Weekly look a day late. …And the World: Greece appears poised for new elections. After each of the top three vote-getting parties failed to reach a deal on a coalition government and the President of Greece failed to broker one,
President Barack Obama (White House) Today President Barack Obama came out in support of marriage equality completing a years long evolution on the subject. The language and couching of the president’s position all along led many gay rights activists to conclude that the president already
…And the World: Vive Hollande! The French cast out the incumbent President Nicolas Sarkozy, of the Union for a Popular Movement, in favor of the Socialist candidate Francois Hollande. Sarkozy had been trailing for several weeks now and the first round of voting two weeks
Six months ago, as Springfield voted in the shadow of a year of bizarre weather that almost certainly affected the election, a potentially subtler electoral coup emerged besides Domenic Sarno’s landslide victory. Even as the weather had scrambled the predictions of the city’s punditocracy and