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Tag: Food and Drug Administration

Business

CAPITAL IDEAS: Treading water

The stock market is always going to have corrections. For me to say that we’re going to get a correction isn’t me pretending to say I am Nostradamus. Corrections happen all the time.

by Allen Harris
Posted on July 8, 2020
Viewpoints

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Deaths of Despair’ shines spotlight on the growing divide between the wealthy and the working poor

The authors were finished in October 2019, months before the manifest COVID-19 failures of the Trump administration. Obviously, we didn’t get it right.

by Mickey Friedman
Posted on May 30, 2020
Business

CAPITAL IDEAS: Business as usual

However, as I’ve noted, due to the COVID-19 crisis, forecasting fundamentals is nearly impossible. When you don’t have access to fundamentals, you use technical analysis.

by Allen Harris
Posted on April 22, 2020
Viewpoints

Amplifications: The shutdown

The Coast Guard, the agency we rely on during the darkest days of disaster, is about to be shuttered for the sake of a wall and a temper tantrum. Ready to move to Canada yet?

by Rochelle O'Gorman
Posted on January 11, 2019
Life In the Berkshires

Opening the Weedgates III: The cruel and unusual legal world of recreational marijuana

Though Great Barrington might soon be hosting four or five cannabis retail stores, you are likely to have a hard time figuring out what they sell.

by Sheela Clary
Posted on January 4, 2019
News

‘JUUL’ of the Housatonic: Vaping seen as ‘epidemic’ in Southern Berkshire schools

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced last week that e-cigarette use has increased almost 80 percent among high schoolers and 50 percent among middle schoolers since last year.

by Terry Cowgill
Posted on November 26, 2018
Letters

Bottled-water ban should focus on all plastics, not just water bottles

In a letter to the editor, Janis Bosworth Graham-Jones writes, “The single, most effective thing a consumer can do to reduce plastic pollution of our environment is to ensure that any used plastic container enters the recycling chain directly from their hand.​”

by Letter to the editor
Posted on May 1, 2018
News

News Brief: DPH discovers salmonella in frozen coconut

Testing performed by Massachusetts led Evershing International Trading Company to announce a recall of Coconut Tree brand frozen shredded coconut packaged in 16-ounce plastic bags.

by Edge Staff
Posted on January 11, 2018
Life In the Berkshires

Egremont Green News: Police are taking back old meds

Great Barrington police estimate that three to five people a day drop off old meds at their take-back receptacle, which is the size and shape of a mailbox and sits to the right of the window at the police desk.

by Egremont Green Committee
Posted on August 30, 2017
Arts & Entertainment

BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Death of Cancer,’ overcoming disease in spite of ourselves

“The true story of the war on cancer is not just a war against nature but a war of us against ourselves . . . We have the tools to eradicate cancer.”

— Dr. Vincent T. DeVita Jr.

by David Noel Edwards
Posted on November 29, 2015
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