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GE representatives outline Housatonic Rest of River remediation plan for Woods/Valley Mill Pond, but many details must await final proposal

The project is set to remove just over 61 acres from Woods Pond, with all dredged materials slated for transport to a waste landfill to be built in Lee.

CONNECTIONS: Life in a time of coronavirus

As shelves empty and everything closes, there is a lot to think about.

Local health officials on the coronavirus: Caution and common sense

"The likelihood of getting the flu virus — and dying from it — is far more likely than getting novel coronavirus at this time,” says Dr. Everett Lamm of Community Health Programs.

AMPLIFICATIONS: Poking the hornet’s nest

According to reports from members of Congress, the briefing regarding what appears to be an illegal act of war on a foreign government was full of holes.

CAPITAL IDEAS: What happens to stocks after Middle East crises?

The U.S. produces about 13 million barrels per day and consumes 21 million, so higher oil prices could depress economic growth. But I’m not worried about that yet.

ORANGE ALERT: The (almost) daily outrage

Trump tweets predicting Obama would start a war with Iran to get re-elected are coming back to haunt him.

Dark times are upon us

"I still live with a faint sense of possibility that public life can progress, and that the forces of liberalism and social democracy (and hopefully decency, but that’s never guaranteed) will take power."

CAPITAL IDEAS: Maybe you’ll get Social Security after all

Without changes, the Social Security Administration projects that its trust fund will be insolvent by 2035.

CAPITAL IDEAS: Fuel for the fire

The next six months may finally give you the returns you were hoping for. But depending on your level of expectations, I doubt it.

CAPITAL IDEAS: The art of the oil deal

As the Saudis attempt to normalize oil prices, the market is all but guaranteed to overshoot to the upside as it typically does when prices mean revert.

FilmColumbia: Asghar Farhadi’s ‘Everybody Knows’ explores the consequences of secrets past

In his first film set in Spain, director Asghar Farhadi continues to provoke and examine his usual themes of class and gender struggles.

THEATRE REVIEW: Astonishingly original ‘White Rabbit Red Rabbit’ a multi-facted query of mortality

The play appears plotless, but is anchored by the most classical narrative structure—conflict underpins everything that happens.

Uncle Sam’s policy of Fickle Friendship: Two test cases

With a friend like the United States, what freedom-loving people – from the native tribes of New England to the self-liberated people of the Philippines – needed an enemy?

News Briefs: MassDOT future projects; Iran nuclear deal debate at Williams; Lyme disease bill hearings

Lyme disease cases continue to be high in southern Berkshire County, at a case rate of over 500 cases per 100,000 population. Berkshire County also has the second-highest rate in Massachusetts for the tick-borne coinfection anaplasmosis.

In Becket woods, a poet and his international dust collection

The poet David Giannini says his collection of ordinary dust from around the world is unintentional art in the style of Marcel Duchamp. Scottish dust, Korean dust, Haitian dust and Cuban dust; dust from Mt. Etna, Iranian dust, and Tokyo dust

KALCHEIM: Stupidity in foreign affairs knows no bounds

To these dangerous ignoramuses, blind tough-talking is always the answer. They actually believe that antagonizing Iran in perpetuity, a country of more than 80 million people, which is sure to develop a nuclear bomb some day, if it really wants to, actually enhances our national security.
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