Connecticut Governor Jodi Rell yesterday gave her first budget address since taking office last July. Her budget comes as the state is facing a $1.2 billion deficit. WFCR's Av Harris has a report on the...
A state-appointed Finance Control Board is overseeing the economically-strapped city of Springfield, Massachusetts. City officials believe improving neighborhoods is an important priority, so councilor Bud...
She doesn't drink or smoke, and 27-year-old Shazia Mirza is still a virgin. She's a devout Muslim, and she's also a standup comic who's performing in Northampton, Mass. on Sunday, February 13, at the Academy of Music...
What makes a genius? Eminent personages of the 19th century often left their brains to science. The convoluted gray matter of Lord Byron, Anatole France, William Makepeace Thackery, Walt Whitman, and Charles Babbage was...
For four years, the Pioneer Valley Women's Running Club has been providing support for women involved in running -- it has also been encouraging younger females to get involved in physical activity. Susan Jaye-Kaplan...
Renewable energy is gaining in popularity. Farmers have long recognized that animal waste is a source of methane which can be used to generate heat and power. But small and midsize farmers are struggling to create...
Massachusetts' highest court is expected to rule soon on the Hancock School Funding case. The litigation charges the state with failing to adequately support public schools even after a decade of education reform....
Months ago, Rabbi Justin David of Congregation B'nai Israel in Northampton, Massachusetts, planned a trip to India. He hoped to fulfill a longtime dream of personal spiritual exploration. As it happened, he arrived in...
The potential execution of Connecticut serial killer Michael Ross has heightened the political debate about abolishing capitol punishment in the state. There are several bills moving through the legislature that would...
Francis Bok was seven years old when he was sold into slavery after his village was raided by a Janjaweed militia. For ten years he endured daily beatings, ate rotten food, and slept among the animals. Bob Paquette...
In the new movie The Woodsman, actor Kevin Bacon plays a man recently paroled after serving time for a sex crime. The child abuse prevention group Stop It...
Can meditation change your brain? A new study out of Umass Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital has found that a type of meditation -- called mindfulness training -- actually increases the grey matter in brain cells...
Economic growth in the Bay State slowed "significantly" in the fourth quarter of 2010, according to a report from the University of Massachusetts. WFCR's Bob Paquette reports.
