Chris MAza
About Chris
As Managing Editor of the Hampden County East publications, Chris is the primary editor for the East Longmeadow Reminder, the Ludlow/Monson Reminder and the Springfield Reminder. Chris also contributes occasional opinion columns for the weekly editions, as well as reporting in each of the publications he oversees. Chris also serves as a host on The Reminder’s podcast, “So That Reminds Me”.
Disney’s briar patch was too thorny to go unpruned
As I write this column, my family and I are in the final days of preparation for our trip to Walt Disney World. In the interest of full disclosure, we are “those people” – a Disney family. My wife and I celebrated our honeymoon, fifth and 10th anniversaries at the...
The case of the missing reporting: a mea culpa
By now we’ve all seen the Saturday Night Live bit. We’ve seen the national news article shared on social media forums for the 100th time. We know – the lights at Minnechaug Regional High School won’t turn off. Many of our faithful and passionate readers have...
As access to information deteriorates, what’s our ‘Plan B?’
A few years ago, there was a brief period of time during which I left journalism as a full-time vocation. While I still dabbled in freelance, the economic landscape was untennable for a soon-to-be first-time father with a mortgage and other “adult”...