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Digby: Berkshire Hills budget subcommittee last week — and this

Digby comments on the "political" behavior behind the budgeting process at Berkshire Hills Regional School District when it proposed cutting programs from next year's school budget. "Political" means one thing one week, another thing the next.

On the reasons for cuts of art and early-K programs in BHRSD’s Special Committee’s budget proposal:

“This is a political decision,” Stockbridge Selectboard member Chuck Gillett said of the cuts.

It was true, admitted committee members Richard Dohoney and Dan Weston, who are both on the Finance Subcommittee, saying the unpopular decisions — even among themselves — were “a response to pressure on the School Committee,” as Weston put it, to ease some of Great Barrington’s tax pain.

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CONNECTIONS: We shouldn’t be surprised that we still have to fight for democracy — even after 249 years

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.

I WITNESS: While we were reeling — with thanks to lovely Rita for putting it on my radar

As many of our best writers and talking heads have reminded us, continually, now is not the time to look away and capitulate.

CONNECTIONS: Hugh Page resigns

Character assassination has no place in the government or politics of Stockbridge.

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