This year, trees that have suffered from a lack of water may present us with an array of muted browns. Is it a lack of water, or election-year ennui, I wonder?
The gas company is running roughshod over Sandisfield townspeople, too, as it backs away from promises to give the town money to fix roads and bridges that may be chewed up by massive pipeline trucks.
We would prefer that those choosing to comment on The Edge would be willing to -- as they say -- "own" their viewpoints and observations by identifying themselves, much as they would at a New England town meeting.
If Kinder Morgan had taken a close look at the Commonwealth before launching NED, the company would have seen that Massachusetts has cut energy demand so dramatically that it has little need for more natural gas.
In "Remarkable Women" Carole Owens is able to extrapolate from the formal and often obscure language of court documents and legal filings, the rough and tumble times of illicit sex, greed, land grabbing lawyers, and powerful oligarchies.
Whether considering hotels in Great Barrington, police contracts in Stockbridge, or formulas for school payments in Sheffield, the most important single issue is to protect the last of the direct democracies.
This study demonstrates that we do not need increased gas capacity to meet electric reliability needs, and that electric ratepayers shouldn’t foot the bill for additional pipelines.”
-- Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey
In his letter to the editor, Stephen McAlister writes: "What’s at stake here is the integrity of a New England town meeting, the most direct form of democracy on the planet."
While we may be able to predict which species, how many, when, observing birds in the wild is still at heart about the sheer pleasure of their unpredictability.
We have driven ourselves to somehow believe that there is a magic bullet to perfect health, perfect life and the stress of not finding it only contributes to our sense of dissatisfaction.
The clean energy think-tank, Acadia Center, released a three-part report in June concluding that New England is not facing an energy crisis. And the Maine PUC is investigating whether a publicly-funded interstate pipeline, such as the Kinder Morgan pipeline, is legal.
