Editor’s note

Do you fi nd yourself with too much tension over pensions? Are you not sure murals should qualify for TIF funding because they won’t produce an increment, but you think they’re cool anyway? Do you wish the government would just spy on the bad guys and not on you? There is no better remedy for your weary social conscience than the Springfi eld Muni’s production of Les Mis. Under the summer moon you can return to the grand themes of love and forgiveness, destiny and freedom. “Do you hear the people sing?/ Lost in the valley of the night/ It is the music of a people/ Who are climbing to the light.” Refreshed, you can go back to work on the problems of the day, singing with Gavroche: “And little people know/ When little people fi ght/ We may look easy pickings/ But we’ve go some bite.” –Fletcher Farrar, editor and publisher Cover Photo by Donna Lounsberry