The musical explores the courage, conviction, and personal sacrifice of leaders and extraordinary “ordinary” Americans who put everything on the line to attain freedom.
We need to be on the streets to demand that our nation put the needs of working families over the profits of big business by protecting union rights, strengthening workplace and consumer safety protections, and addressing climate change.
Thirty-two dedicated professionals have built their careers around serving our community—nights, weekends, holidays, at personal cost, carrying the psychological weight that comes with this work. These are not line items. They are neighbors and friends.
Could this pattern of behavior—the grandiosity, the erratic statements, the apparent detachment from reality—be laying groundwork, consciously or not, for a future claim of mental incompetence as a shield against legal accountability?
Our congressman gets thousands from the insurance industry as town after town in the county is searching for money and solutions to large insurance increases at annual town meetings.
This week, as a Lenox resident with a child in the Lenox school district, I received a survey in the mail presenting three options: keep “Millionaires,” change it, or “I don’t care.” On one level, it may seem like a small question. On another, it asks something larger.
The president's latest assault on good taste is not so likely to go away politically, unless the shooting war he has initiated permits him to change the subject.
The residential tax exemption addresses the different statuses of people in our community and spreads the burden in a way that makes it possible for more people to live here and thrive.
Both affordable housing and our libraries are vital to the strength of our community. Each deserves to be considered on its merits through a transparent and impartial process.