“I have a child who was born here, but as immigrants — the way we look, the way we sound — sometimes we feel scared because even if we’re here as citizens, I feel like anything can happen to us.”
— Maria, an immigrant from El Salvador
Tag: Maria
ORANGE ALERT: The (almost) daily outrage
While most residents endured another day without power and many without water or other basic services in the wake of Hurricane Maria, Mr. Trump upbraided Puerto Rico’s leadership.
Egremont Green News: Historic hurricane season leaves us wanting a better bottle bill
The idea was to collect 5-cent deposit beverage containers from the town transfer station and send the money to victims of a historically destructive month of hurricanes. In the process, we also developed some ideas about how the Massachusetts Bottle Bill, a good thing, could be made even better.