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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.

Please return ‘Messiah’ scores

In his letter to the editor John Lynn Jones writes: “A purloined Messiah score won't be an E-ZPass at the Pearly Gates."

ORANGE ALERT: The (almost) daily outrage

President Donald Trump’s accusation that a federal watchdog has devastated the financial industry is unsupported by the evidence that banks like best: profits.

ORANGE ALERT: The (almost) daily outrage

"There can be no truly open internet without net neutrality. To believe otherwise is to be captive to special interest power brokers." -- Former FCC Commissioner Michael Copps

Two Tough Guys and “The Course of Empire”

Jackson’s upswept silver coif seems to foreshadow Trump’s layered goldilocks arrangement – the two tough guys revealed as natural-born hairdressers.

Taxes should not support historic preservation in Egremont

In his letter to the editor Richard Allen writes: “If something is worth saving, it should be saved through voluntary contributions, not involuntary taxation”

ORANGE ALERT: The (almost) daily outrage

A rewriting of history to satisfy the president's interpretation of the holiday.

ORANGE ALERT: The (almost) daily outrage

The top national security official dismissed the president variously as an “idiot” and a “dope” with the intelligence of a “kindergartner,” the sources said.

Williamstown offers a lesson for Egremont – and Richard Allen

In her letter to the editor, Susan Bachelder writes: “[These school buildings ]… cause us to reflect on some pretty good ideas about who we are and what we like to remember about ourselves when we see them. How we care for them today will create our future.”

South Egremont school ‘costly,’ ‘tiny,’ ugly’

In a letter to the editor, Richard Allen of Egremont writes, "... it is irrational to devote taxpayer money to keeping open costly and ineffective one-room schoolhouses."

LEONARD QUART: A comeuppance for predatory men

The public exposure of the predatory politicians, actors, TV personalities who harassed girls, women, (and boys) should have happened a long time ago.

ORANGE ALERT: The (almost) daily outrage

Trump’s chief economic adviser has had to admit that they broke their promise that the middle class would benefit most.

POEM: Lyrics for ‘The Oval Office Exit Song’

The president’s men are lining up, waiting to see who’s next in line to follow the norms out the window and crash-land on the White House lawn.

ORANGE ALERT: The (almost) daily outrage

Trump said he took Putin at his word that Russia did not seek to interfere in the US presidential election last year.

Opioid painkillers: A prescription for disaster

Within the first quarter of 2017, more than 4.4 million solid dosage opioid units were prescribed in Bristol County (Massachusetts) among 30,672 individuals.

LEONARD QUART: A rare pleasurable political moment

There is now a push to promote a bevy of first time candidates in local elections — many of them women.

Stop the attacks on Medicaid: It holds the key to better health

Through the Affordable Care Act we – finally – have a health care approach that acknowledges the realities of life below the poverty line.