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THE OTHER SIDE: MAGA medicine

Gone is respect for the hard-earned body of knowledge developed over so many years by exhaustive trial and error, by continuous study, experimentation, and re-evaluation, honed by failure and followed by success.

The Other Side: On burn pits and the loss of a friend

"Maybe it’s just me, but it seems all connected. The continuing criminal neglect for the mental and physical health of our service people. While Halliburton and KBR made billions. While the politicians continue to live off their blood money donations of the military-industrial complex."

IN FOCUS: Pending sale of downtown building may add to Great Barrington’s housing woes

Concerns regarding the affordability of living in Great Barrington continue amidst reports that the 117-year-old Mahaiwe Block at the corner of Main Street and Castle Street may be sold to real-estate developer Ian Rasch of Alander Group.

The Other Side: ‘Re-COVID’ should continue to concern us all

When a virus lays you low, keeps you from work, from seeing your friends and loved ones, or puts you in a hospital, or in the ICU, how exactly do you keep it from disrupting your life?

The Other Side: In the land of the Davids

In his latest column, Mickey Friedman lays out how the EPA and General Electric can clean up Housatonic River PCB contamination without relying on the proposed plan to create a toxic waste dump in Lee.