(WMassP&I) CHICOPEE–At a handful of tables in the Knights of Columbus hall, Democrats in Western Massachusetts’ second largest city, scarfed down a breakfast of eggs, bacon and other staples and presented their own Democrat of the year award. Area political luminaries were present including the
Belatedly, Happy Columbus Day. …And the World: Elections in Poland over the weekend made history as the governing Civic Platform won a second term, the first political party in Poland to do so since the fall of Communism. Prime Minister Donald Tusk led the government
Of course we are not there, but between street level live cams, an aeriel live cam and tweets from the scene, Boston Police, State Police and Transit Police have cleared Occupy Boston protesters from a second plot of the Rose Kennedy Greenway. Afterward, sanitation workers
Pikachu’s Pose/Taunt in SSBM (Youtube) There’s a bonus in the Gamecube video game Super Smash Bros. Melee (and its sequel) called Poser Poseur. You earn it if you push your taunt/pose button immediately after another player (or the computer) has just done the same. To
With the field more or less set, Democrats vying for their party’s nomination to challenge Scott Brown debated for the first time at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell this evening. The debate was moderated by UMASS-Lowell Chancellor and former representative Martin Meehan with questions from a student
(WMassP&I) The Springfield City Council meant to bring some measure of finality to the budget process and a provide a measure closure to the acrimony that has bedeviled the City Council and the Mayor’s office. Between a canny move by at-large Councilor Jimmy Ferrera and
…And the World: Hot on the heels of an announcement by the Greek government that it will miss deficit reduction targets, largely due to contraction of the Greek economy, Great Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne has announced new measures to aid the British
…And the World: The United Kingdom sits in an odd position in the world. Like the United States and the rest of the West, Great Britain’s economy has been languishing and the risk of the sovereign debt crisis are acute given London’s place in the
Troy Davis was executed at 11:08 EDT today. His trevails through Georgia’s justice system and the federal courts had lasted twenty years after he was convicted and sentenced to death based on eye witness testimony alone. He was accused of killing an off-duty police officer,
The results are in for the Springfield 2011 Preliminary. Turnout was expected at about 10%, but ended up being nearly 15%. Still abysmal, but above average for past Springfield races, very probably influenced by the presence of the city’s first mayoral primary in many years.