Our nation may be waking up. Immigration and the fear of the other was the Trump linchpin for his electoral success, and the polls now show a turning away from his brutal enforcement and his deportation policies.
I see this controversy as a distracting sideshow to the even larger, scandalous, and pervasive abuses of the welfare of millions of our minor citizens, abuses embedded as fiscal time bombs in the recently passed federal budget bill.
It all started quite innocently. While standing on a corner on Market Street in San Francisco, I was approached by two very friendly young people who struck up a conversation with me. Always game for random social interaction, I wandered down the street with them.
I am amazed the MAGA faithful have been mostly silent on all the law-breaking, horrid, cruel—add you own adjective here—acts Trump has gotten away with, only to find the Epstein files to be what has shaken the MAGA bedrock. Who knew?
Before the election, after Kash Patel, Pam Bondi, and other right-wing conspiracy theorists claimed that the FBI had the Epstein file but refused to release it because Bill Clinton and other Democrats were likely included, the MAGA drums were beating for raw meat.
That Great Barrington has a housing shortage is indisputable—both affordable and market-rate housing. I think that every person on Mahaiwe Street is in agreement. I am concerned about the wholesale selling of our community to developers without input from us.
If the Orange One decides to slap a tariff on Bare Naked Lady tickets or, heaven forbid, Bare Naked Lady decides to boycott the U.S. in solidarity with other Canadians, our lives will be far poorer for it.
After decades of Arcadian Shop renting kayaks at its Lenox location and then bringing them and their renters to the beautiful Stockbridge Bowl to paddle, the state announced a new policy that rentals aren’t allowed to launch from its facility.
I don’t know how we arrived at a place where we thought everyone would support democracy because it was an intellectually superior form of government. All of human history contradicts that notion.
The John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and The Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act combat ongoing racial discrimination, establish basic standards for free and fair elections, and expand early voting and mail-in voting options.
