I think there are few people who would disagree with the only true thing he said during the entire press conference. No one in this country has ever seen anything like the year we have just endured.
Massachusetts could have conditioned the move to Boston on an expeditious, cooperative cleanup of the Housatonic River; there is no evidence that that happened. On the contrary, GE appears to have received benefits and incentives in the East, and no reminder of its responsibilities in the West.
It was 81 years of squabbles between Lenox and Pittsfield. The message was always the same and quite simple: viewing Berkshire County north to south, Pittsfield was the center, not Lenox.
