None of these over-the-top displays aim at subtlety but their spectacle attempts to envelop us all in holiday good feelings, and it succeeds with many. Still, the abattoir much of the world has turned into repels and frightens me.
What do kids want for Christmas, based on their letters to Santa? Find out, as Lulu and Hershey open today's Dogs News Network Advent calendar windows.
“It’s easy to sit back and look at a disaster and say, take the guns away. We do have strict gun laws and we still have a problem.”
-- State Rep. William "Smitty" Pignatelli, D-Lenox
In his letter to the editor, David Harris writes: "I hope our fair-minded citizens will let Gov. Baker know we find unacceptable... his refusal to offer refuge.
It is a sad commentary on our society — and even our own little neighborhood here in the Berkshires — that a local woman who felt strongly enough about the offensiveness of Charlie Hebdo’s mockery of Islam to write about it for EdgeWise, still felt she could not risk attaching her name and face to her opinions.