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I WITNESS: Clean up on aisle five… and six

I firmly believe that women should be running the show, globally.

CONNECTIONS: Protests are us

In July in a tavern in Stockbridge, 60 delegates drew up and signed the “League and Covenant.” It was the first combined opposition to Royal rule in Berkshire.

Masks work

Masks are necessary and do work on flattening the curve. So why is there such resistance?

CONNECTIONS: Reimagining the role of police

We in Berkshire are fortunate to look on the recent violence from a distance. However, the suggestions to rethink accountability and reimagine policing may be useful in Berkshire as well.

Our duty to create a more perfect union

It is vitally important for those of us who have not been affected by racial discrimination and oppression to be the allies of those who are.

Alan Chartock: The doctor is in

Just because you’d like it doesn’t mean it will happen. It will not. If it did, you would have to figure out how to placate those little states that make out like bandits because of the Electoral College and the undue influence that it gives to them.

CONNECTIONS: Divided we fall

Our forefathers knew that in times of national emergencies, we win against an enemy by a national effort.

Alan Chartock: An honorable politician — and academic

Chris Gibson did not burn any bridges as he moved from the world of politics into academia. But unlike so many denizens of the congressional deep, his honor is intact.

It’s Not That Simple:  Be Counted, It IS That Simple

State funding also uses federal census numbers to allocate grants. So having an accurate count of our town’s population is crucial to having programs adequately funded.

Census official to selectboard: $675 billion at stake and it’s ‘about power’

Census specialist Mark Sebastino emphasized that all responses are protected by Title 13 of the federal code, which prohibits the Census Bureau from sharing personal information with any other government agency or court.

CONNECTIONS: Allure of an oligarchy

Whether pro-Trump or anti-, everyone is curious: What makes Donald Trump so compelling? All have observed lawyers contradict precedent, politicians contradict their own earlier statements,...

No-trial impeachment ‘trial’

In his letter Stewart Edelstein of Stockbridge writes: "We, the people, demand a fair trial, not a show trial with a preordained result."

CONNECTIONS: Is two-party system at risk?

Like now, at the time of the birth of our nation, there were two parties: the Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans. Within three decades, one would disappear.

Smug, mean and contemptuous is no way to go through 2020, friends

How much more convenient than acknowledging that advanced literacy and numeracy is still a shared, public responsibility, the provision of which requires financial sacrifice we’re not willing to make.

Historians recommend impeachment to protect Constitution

In a letter to the editor, Justin F. Jackson writes, "It is my considered judgment, and the judgment of more than 2,000 historians, that if President Trump’s misconduct does not rise to the level of impeachment, and removal from office, then virtually nothing does."

The U.S. Constitution defines the moral spine of the nation

In a letter to the editor, Cynthia Felleisen writes: "The spine is the central issue. Preserving that spine is the responsibility of every able, discriminating, concerned, well-informed citizen."

Alan Chartock: Advice to the governor

Cuomo, people suspect, is still angry with the Working Families Party for endorsing a progressive primary opponent, Zephyr Teachout, in the past Democratic gubernatorial primary — just another example of his living up to the nickname I have attached to him: “Tough Guy Andrew.”
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