New Sick Leave Law

New Sick Leave Law

Employment Law specialist Attorney Amelia Holstrom from Springfield law firm Skoler, Abbott, and Presser discusses the intricacies of the new Sick Time Law adopted by Massachusetts voters when they approved Ballot Question 4 in November. Information about Earned Sick...

Maternity & Paternity Leave

Kevin V. Maltby is an associate with Bacon Wilson, P.C. and a former prosecutor for the Northwestern District Attorney’s Office. He recently wrote an article about Massachusett’s Maternity Leave Act (MMLA) and what employers and employees should know about...

Web Premiere: On-Line Tech Tax

Springfield Attorney Scott Foster, who specializes in business and entrepreneurial law, played a key role in the challenge of the Massachusetts so called “Tech Tax.” He sat down with Connecting Point’s Jim Madigan to discuss why he feels the...

The State We’re In: Gale Candaras

State Senator Gale Candaras (D) – Wilbraham and the will discuss the coming Fiscal Year 2013 budget and state finances as well as her successful fight to modernize the Massachusetts Alimony...

ACLU

Attorney Bill Newman of Northampton,W. Mass. representative for the American Civil Liberties Union, will discuss ACLU comments on the Tarek Mehanna terror trial and the ACLU suit seeking release of the South Hadley settlement with the family of Phoebe Prince....

Prohibition on PBS

Prohibition is a three-part, five-and-a-half-hour documentary film series directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick that tells the story of the rise, rule, and fall of the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the entire era it encompassed. Ken and Lynn sat...

Former Hampden DA: William Bennett

Former Hampden District Attorney, William Bennett will be joining us in studio with host Jim Madigan on Thursday, February 17th to discuss his personal experiences, and the changes that took place in the criminal justice system over the past years. Bennett will also...