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I was expecting to join my friend Ed for lunch at the cafe today, but instead, i heard his anxious voice on my office voicemail. “I’m sorry I can’t make lunch today,” he said, “we have a terrible situation at the house. The ice dams are building up and it’s […]

Now comes the exciting part of being a travel writer. The next trip. As I gaze out into this winter wonderland with the four-foot drifts in South Deerfield, I am reading the itinerary that will take me, far, far down under. I’m heading for Melbourne Australia next Tuesday night and […]

I’ve been following a story out of Greenfield that sadly, may be the future for many cash-strapped towns. The subject is a town employee named Lester Reed, who is being laid off to save money and being replaced by an outside contractor. I used to play basketball with the soft-spoken […]

Egypt is on people’s minds these days, what with the potential toppling of the dictator, Mubarak in the Arab world’s largest country. What a perfect time to watch a rerun of Anthony Bourdain’s show about time in Cairo. He shows off the dishes that the capital city is famous for–sizzling […]

Nobody knows where Whitey Bulger is hiding, or even if he is still alive. He went on the lam in 1995.   Howie Carr is my favorite radio talkmaster and he wrote a book a few years ago called “The Brothers Bulger,”  which  included this scary scene recounted below. In 1983 […]

Sometimes it’s easy to take for granted some facts about the US.  For example, it’s relatively easy to start up a new business here, and the bureaucracy and permits most entrepreneurs face here is piddling compared to in other countries.  One of the European countries that has been in big […]

I first saw the flyer when I was trying, in vain, to interest my five-year-old grandson into trying Go Berry. Even with a generous coating of chocolate syrup, only a sliver of a bite was consumed, but while we were there I picked up a flyer for a Friday night […]

John Goodhue is used to tough questions.  He rose up after college at  MIT to help create eBay and other companies, and eventually sold his internet firm to Cisco. He’s faced VCs and plenty of other tough questioners, and he knows how to make very large,  very powerful networked computers. […]

In a violation of everything that is today’s professional sports world, Gil Meche said no. The Kansas City Royals pitcher had a year left on his contract that would pay him $12 million this year.  But he spurned the money, saying that he didn’t believe he should be paid since […]

I remember back when I used to sell newspaper ads; the place where all of the incentives were was in selling those special sections. We’d have car care, and home improvement, and Letters to Santa and a whole lot more. I made up one that survives in the Gazette to […]

When it comes to fighting cancer, sometimes it’s best to go at it in a completely new and different way. Researchers at Rogosin Institute were profiled in yesterday’s WSJ for their work using cancer to fight cancer. They took kidney cancer cells from mice and put thousands of them into […]