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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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I WITNESS: Of surgical lethality and window dressings

There is nothing "surgical" about the operation, nothing "surgical" about chaos, destruction, and death. In medical terms, if the patient doesn't survive the surgery, it was not quite surgical enough.

Why’d he do it? A chronological rundown of the Trump administration’s explanation for its attacks on Iran

"We heard this attack was defensive in nature," said Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York. "Then Rubio said it was preemptive. Which one is it? Regime change? Nuclear weapons? Missiles? An imminent threat to the homeland? Or a preemptive strike to stop future attacks on the region?"

PETER MOST: The new Community Preservation Act

A new state designation under the Affordable Homes Act could give Great Barrington voluntary tools to preserve year-round housing for essential workers—but only if voters say yes at Annual Town Meeting.

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