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My Turn: Solving humanity’s shared climate crisis

03-18-2024 4:41 PM

By RUSS VERNON-JONES

 A great many of us care about the climate crisis. Many of us have taken steps to reduce our carbon footprints. Many of us have advocated for good climate policy at the local, state, and national levels. We have voted for candidates who seemed most...


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My Turn: A place for everyone in work to help homeless

03-18-2024 4:38 PM

By JARED BRITT

In light of some tension: According to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the commonwealth of Massachusetts had 6,811 people that had been counted as experiencing homelessness according to their 2018 annual homelessness assessment report...


Brendan Kuntz: Thank you, Tara Jacobs

03-18-2024 4:34 PM

The Governor’s Council is a forgotten elected office every election cycle until an underdog wins. District 8 Councilor Tara Jacobs beat out four men because she appealed to rural western Massachusetts voter sentiment. She just stood up again for us in...


David Parrella: Immigrants do not equal criminals

03-18-2024 4:34 PM

In a March 15 opinion, a writer wrote that, “We currently have 11 million illegal immigrants as well as our own criminals in our country” [My Turn, “Much to fear from rampant immigration”]. This promotes the fiction that all immigrants are criminals,...


Michael Albano: The Governor’s Council got it right on SJC

03-18-2024 4:34 PM

The Governor’s Council recently voted 6-1 to elevate Gabrielle R. Wolohojian, an appellate court justice, to the Supreme Judicial Court. A 16-year veteran of the Appeals Court, Wolohojian is Gov. Maura Healey’s second appointee to the SJC, replacing...


Columnist Daniel Cantor Yalowitz: Can’t let fear and its purveyors prey on us

03-17-2024 7:01 PM

By DANIEL CANTOR YALOWITZ

“Do something that scares you every day.” — Eleanor RooseveltOne of the key motivators in human existence — and part of the human condition — is fear. Who of us has never felt or faced fear? It is as universal an emotion as any other. Fear as an...


My Turn: Cease-fire now will mean nothing will have changed

03-17-2024 9:21 AM

By RICHARD WITTY

To activists supporting a “permanent” cease-fire: A permanent cease-fire takes two to tango. Currently Hamas is rejecting a cease-fire proposal put forward by Qatar, Egypt, U.S., the EU and other Arab states.They prefer war. They prefer Gazans to...


John Boles: Severing the gift of the Great River

03-17-2024 9:19 AM

A fish returning to spawn is a gift to us all. It travels its terrestrial pathway with the gift in its soul. But in Northfield, the gift is stolen and broken for us all. The Northfield Mountain Pumped Storage Station ensures the slow death of the...


Danielle Miller: Worst State of the Union address

03-17-2024 9:19 AM

That was the worst State of the Union address I’ve ever seen, and I’m appalled that a Texas woman who aborted her disabled baby girl was a guest of honor. Naturally, Democrats gave her a standing ovation.According to the March 11 AP story in the...


Paul Gallo: Gratitude for heroes who gave their lives

03-17-2024 9:19 AM

Several years ago, my wife, Mary and I visited Rome. We were excited to see the Colosseum, Sistine Chapel, and the many other incredible antiquities. As impressed as we were by those sights, it paled in comparison to the profound effect of our visit...


Terry Plotkin: We want our river back

03-15-2024 2:47 PM

The Northfield Mountain Pumped Storage Station is vying for a 50-year extension of its license. Comments to FERC are due by April 22, Earth Day.This request is from a Canadian company, registered in Delaware, that takes all the profits from our river...


Wallis Reid: ‘Absurd conclusions’ from faulty premise about human zygotes

03-15-2024 2:47 PM

In the guest column “What’s wrong with Alabama embryo decision,” [Recorder, March 11], Donald Joralemon pointed out that it was based on a faulty understanding of the biology of human reproduction. It also shows that the judges did not realize the...


Lucinda Brown: Everybody’s vote should count

03-15-2024 2:47 PM

I believe in the innate goodness of people. I believe in a civil, participatory society. I believe in voting. But the post office? Not so much.Ours is a two-voter household in South Deerfield who tried mail-in voting for the primary this year. Our...


Mieke Bomann: Welcome Starbucks

03-15-2024 2:47 PM

For 13 years, I have driven into Northampton almost every day, exiting Interstate 91 and driving past a busy Starbucks on a busy road that also features a nearby Aldi, CVS, Big Y, and a Pride gas station. I am happy to report that I have lived through...


Joan Marie Jackson and Mitch Speight: Protect your home equity from tax collector

03-15-2024 2:47 PM

To any of the owners of the 105 properties listed in the March 1 full-page legal ad in the Recorder, the tax collector in Athol does not have the right to keep any of your private property equity owed above tax arrears and court costs. The plan to...


The World Keeps Turning: The great divide

03-15-2024 2:38 PM

By ALLEN WOODS

Here’s breaking political news — Americans are nearly unanimous in one central belief: Our society, for the lack of a better phrase, is “going to hell in a handbasket” (i.e., quickly and directly, with the phrase possibly relating to Dante’s trip to...


My Turn: Wake up America! Much to fear from rampant immigration

03-14-2024 2:42 PM

By ESTHER T. FORCE

Immigration is what has built our country and marks it as a fascinating cauldron of many cultures, nations, and ideas. In the beginning, immigrants who came to Ellis Island were to come with identification papers from their home country. We need to...


My Turn: Trust Matters — Cultivating a culture of mutual respect at Erving Elementary School

03-14-2024 2:39 PM

By ELIZABETH DESORGHER

 At the heart of a thriving educational system lies the indispensable foundation of trust. Trust is the cornerstone that upholds the delicate balance among students, educators, parents, administrators, and school committee, forming the anchor of...


Laurel Facey: Defend local control over energy monoliths

03-14-2024 2:38 PM

Wendell faces a David vs. Goliath battle. New Leaf Energy, a spinoff of Borrego Energy, plans to build a battery energy storage system near the center of town of a size more suitable for an industrially zoned site than on 50 forested acres — 11 acres...


Ann Fisk: A rare individual

03-14-2024 2:38 PM

A huge shout-out to everyone who played a role in Bob Manners’ life celebration, held Saturday at Greenfield Community College. It truly reflected his life well lived. I am especially grateful for the social media link that allowed those who could not...



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