Friday, September 11, 2026

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John Breasted

John Breasted moved to Great Barrington after working in Hartford for 23 years as (sequentially) a medical student, medical school employee, newspaper reporter, lobbyist in the Connecticut legislature, researcher for a public interest group and a state agency, and as a grade school tutor. In Great Barrington he has tutored students since 1995, first at Monument Mountain Regional High School and then at Bard College at Simon’s Rock.

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JOHN BREASTED: The Great Barrington Selectboard’s credibility gap

Transparency does not require officials to reveal legal strategy. It does require them to tell voters when the town has been sued.

JOHN BREASTED: Violence in Israel-Palestine is fueled by linguistic and historical lies

Clinging to lies about and distortions of history will obstruct the difficult work of creating a lasting, non-oppressive peace in the Middle East.

JOHN BREASTED: ICE arrests in Berkshire County disrupted at least four Superior Court criminal prosecutions from 2017 to 2024

ICE has no authority to somehow speed the state judicial process by arresting and detaining a defendant who has already been charged with a state felony and released (or jailed) by a Superior Court judge, pending further court proceedings.

JOHN BREASTED: Kamala Harris, Lady Macbeth, and my 1997 dream

If Kamala Harris is elected on November 5, and if she holds to the three pledges quoted above, she will likely eventually find herself echoing Lady Macbeth.

Fear mongering distorts facts on Question 1, mandating minimum nurse-patient hospital staffing

The practices of hospital-based medical care and good hospital management depend as much on compassionate treatment of both patients and caregivers as on number crunching, as any honest, experienced bedside clinician can testify.
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