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Community Radio Hour: December 2007
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Audio from the field; Northampton and beyond. Thursday, December 27, 2007. Feiden Re-Appointment Gone Missing? In light of recent discussions about Best Practices, Ms. Misa asked the City Council to review Mr. Feiden's appointment status. Yet we wonder- will the City Council issue a formal response to Jackie Misa's request that the Planning Director's status be reviewed? Posted by Mary Serreze. Links to this post. Wednesday, December 26, 2007. Adam Cohen takes on Smart Growth. After all, developer Doug K...
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Community Radio Hour: The Landfill Waiver: Science or Politics?
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Audio from the field; Northampton and beyond. Wednesday, May 28, 2008. The Landfill Waiver: Science or Politics? DPW Chief Ned Huntley and City Engineer Jim Laurila at a recent Board of Public Works meeting. The landfill has been in operation since 1969. The original unlined landfill covers a 21-acre area, which stopped accepting waste in 1990 and was capped in 1995. Just to the east of the unlined landfill are four lined cells, referred to as Phases 1-4. Determined that the Glendale Road landfill is ind...
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Community Radio Hour: July 2008
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Audio from the field; Northampton and beyond. Friday, July 11, 2008. Journalists: "Open the Freezer". Photo: Howard Schneider, Dean of the Journalism Department at Stony Brook University in New York and former reporter and managing editor with Newsday. The New England News Forum. Photo: Doug McGill, Journalism professor at Carleton College, former New York Times staff reporter and International Bureau Chief with Bloomberg News. McGill encourages reporters to "Welcome Xenia" and to "Talk to Strangers," wh...
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Community Radio Hour: Citizens United for a Healthy Future
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Audio from the field; Northampton and beyond. Monday, December 10, 2007. Citizens United for a Healthy Future. Linda Heisiger and Joanne Bessette, representatives from Citizens United for a Healthy Future, speak on the politics of the proposed landfill expansion on Glendale Road in Northampton. Download here, or listen using the embedded player below. Get your own playlist at snapdrive.net! Posted by Mary Serreze. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Mserreze at gmail dot com. Bill Dwight on WHMP.
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Community Radio Hour: October 2007
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Audio from the field; Northampton and beyond. Monday, October 29, 2007. Mayor Mary Clare Higgins. Clare discusses her political history in Northampton, Chapter 40B, Municipal Finance, Public Works, The Fairgrounds, her meeting with Smith, and other topics as the election season rolls to its conclusion. Or listen using this player:. Posted by Mary Serreze. Links to this post. Thursday, October 25, 2007. A Conversation with Jack Hornor. Or listen using this embedded player:. Posted by Mary Serreze. Subscri...
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Community Radio Hour: November 2007
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Audio from the field; Northampton and beyond. Monday, November 19, 2007. Is the King Street Zoning at Fault? The Gazette Headline Read: Zoning Forces Developers to Nix King Street Plan. Many were disappointed when plans for a proposed mixed-use, human-scale development on King Street, in compliance with the new streetscape-friendly zoning, suddenly were withdrawn. Was the new zoning to blame? A threatened lawsuit by the Florence Savings Bank? Pressure from Cooley Dickinson Hospital? Posted by Mary Serreze.
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Community Radio Hour: June 2008
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Audio from the field; Northampton and beyond. Wednesday, June 25, 2008. Kollmorgen Trumps Master Plan. Hen I invited independent journalists Mike Kirby. To the radio studio to talk about their objections to the siting of Kollmorgen Electro-Optical. On so-called Village Hill. Listen to the Radio Show Here:. The original plan, developed by the well-known "new urbanist" Peter Calthorpe's. Was the original plan pie-in-the-sky? Did the marketing for the village concept not yield any real results? Does this bo...
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Community Radio Hour: Lawyers to the ZBA: Yadda Yadda
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Audio from the field; Northampton and beyond. Thursday, July 10, 2008. Lawyers to the ZBA: Yadda Yadda. T was not for the faint of heart. For a full three and a half hours on June 26, lawyers representing the Northampton Department of Public Works, Ameresco Energy Services Company, and a group of 42 Appellants addressed the Zoning Board of Appeals. First Photo: Thomas Mackie for the DPW). Second Photo: Peter Koff for the Appellants). Fourth Photo: City Soliicitor Janet Shepard). As many of you know, the ...
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Community Radio Hour: Trim the Fat? What Fat is That?
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Audio from the field; Northampton and beyond. Monday, May 5, 2008. What Fat is That? How often have we heard these words spoken when conversations arise about funding municipal services? It is difficult not to be sympathetic with this sentiment when we read about former city employees walking away with huge windfalls upon retirement from their accrued sick pay. Why are we talking about closing an elementary school? Is this just a scare tactic, meant to manipulate people into supporting a tax override?
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ANDREA WRITES AND BLOGS.: April 2008
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ANDREA WRITES AND BLOGS. Mostly concerning Amherst, UMass Amherst, Northampton and Boston. Personal and other interest pieces for some spice. We had to interview and describe someone in Magazine Writing class for preparation in travel writing. I was happy with how mine came out so I'm sharing it with you. Posted by Andrea Murray. At 4/23/2008 09:58:00 AM. Battle of the bands at Student Union Ballroom. BATTLE OF THE BANDS AT STUDENT UNION BALLROOM. The judges will be Michaela Farley and Danny Soto, the co...
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