Even the New York Times business section, The Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg News fail to do any investigative reporting on both the short- and long-term corrosive effects (during my 77 years) on our domestic economy of the U.S.'s reflexive spending on war and preparation for war.
If Great Barrington is to have a future as good as its past, it must embrace the new industries that are springing up, and the new people who are coming to town to participate in them. These new people are attracted by a town where the institutions of American civic life still function, where they can get their children a first-rate public education for their property tax dollars.
