Thursday is Thanksgiving, a holiday started in Massachusetts. This holiday celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November is a feast resembling one in 1621 between the Pilgrims and Native Americans, but how much of the history is actually true?
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High food prices not likely to drop
Although gas prices have been rapidly falling in the past month, food prices may not follow suit, and consumers are looking for alternatives to the high-priced grocery store chains. Over the past several years, rising gas prices have pushed the price of food higher and higher as farmers and grocery stores struggled to make a profit while their production and transportation costs skyrocketed.
Fiscal challenges ahead for UMass
Part 3 of a three-part series on Question 1.
Gov. Deval Patrick has already announced a mid-year budget cut of about five percent in response to the international financial crisis. According to a mass e-mail sent by Chancellor Robert C. Holub, UMass Amherst’s campus alone will lose $12 million. Holub says cuts will begin immediately and will affect next year’s fiscal budget. If the Question 1 initiative passes, those cuts would be added on top of these.