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How can Great Barrington vote on a Proposition 2 1/2 override without knowing the amount we are voting on?

It is like agreeing to pay back a loan without knowing the amount you are borrowing.

To the editor:

How can we vote on the Proposition 2½ override when we don’t know the exact amount we are voting on? The figures they are throwing out are just ballpark figures. Until it goes out to bid, we don’t know; it might be lower (hopefully) or higher (probably)! It is like agreeing to pay back a loan without knowing the amount you are borrowing.

William Arienti
Great Barrington

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For there to finally be peace in the Middle East and Ukraine, countries will have to recognize the need to compromise

Trump often boasts about his relationships with Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin. If true, now is the time to put that to good use.

The call for Bard College President Leon Botstein’s resignation is premature and irresponsible

Not only is the open letter divisive and destructive to basic principles of fairness, but so is the headlining and broadcasting of the letter by local publications.

Shining our way to national security

The good news is that thanks to rapid technological advances, solar power generation and storage are now cost competitive with petroleum-based sources, while being relatively free of their “externalities” of pollution, global warming, and, yes, wars.

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