Springfield President Trump came into his first State of the Union speech marking the end of his first year in office with the lowest level of popular support for his job performance in modern times with only 37% of the American people approving his work according to polls. Perhaps unsurprisingly he used the opportunity to …
Month: January 2018
Forty-Nine Years and More of the Story Emerges on the Springfield Riot
Springfield Before the showing of “The Organizer,” the organizers of the screening and Q&A has put together a small dinner for some of the professors and their star students. As people put away their plates, Rick Paar, a Springfield College psychology professor, said that since I was there he wanted to tell the story of …
Remembering Springfield Years Later
Springfield I haven’t been back in Springfield, Massachusetts since 2009. Driving from the airport in Hartford, nothing looked that different at 1 AM in the morning, but that’s pretty faint praise. The Basketball Hall of Fame is prominently located along the expressway. Mass Mutual Insurance company is still large enough to have its old highway …