No nation keeps such a high percentage of its people in prison as the USA. Europe's rate is a fraction of ours. On May 31 the Valley Post emailed a state senator from Northampton and one from... Read more »
May 29, 2026
Springfield, MA Workers Celebrate
Seventy-thousand Lyft and Uber drivers in Massachusetts formed a union on May 25. “I'm thrilled,” Peter Cianciolo told the Valley Post in a voice phone interview on May 28. He lives in... Read more »
May 21, 2026
Climate Rally is June 10
On June 10 in Springfield, Massachusetts, there will be a climate rally outside the office of Eversource, a corporation that sells electricity to homes and businesses in more than 140 towns and... Read more »
May 15, 2026
Workers Win
The lowest paid workers at Brattleboro Memorial Hospital will get a $2 an hour raise under the terms of a first union contract that the workers ratified on May 11. The contract covers about 280... Read more »
May 08, 2026
May 27 Pioneer Valley Bus to Vermont ICE Protest
A bus will leave from Deerfield, Massachusetts, near Greenfield, to go to an ICE protest in Burlington, Vermont. The bus will leave on May 27 at 8:30 a.m. It will arrive back in Deerfield by 3:30... Read more »