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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.

Smoke signals from The Swamp: F.O.R. – Part I: Tillerson & ExxonMobil

I’m not going to be the one to tell you Russia picked Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton. But the combined intelligence services of our government will.

An alternate vision: Retain the art in the Berkshire Museum

In her letter to the editor, Carol Diehl writes: “There’s no evidence that a children’s science and technology museum, which would also require gutting the classic Gilded Age building, would be successful.”

After BMC nurses’ strike and lockout, four more questions

In his letter to the editor, John Breasted writes: “BHS should fully disclose the magnitude of the extra costs incurred in its four-day lockout, and the terms of its contract with the company that supplied its strike labor.”

CONNECTIONS: The president’s humorist

When Abraham Lincoln met with his cabinet, he read Josh Billings aloud. I wonder what Donald Trump reads aloud.

SOUL SUPPORT: Now leaving suffering

How do we find our way into a state of well-being, out of suffering?

Concert attire (revised)

The author has now reworded the graphic for clarity. His original intent was certainly not to make light of mass murder. It was to show the absurdity of the NRA’s position that arming the population is a better solution to gun violence than any type of gun regulation.

POEM: It Happened One Night … in Alabama

The crowd unzips like the Red Sea back in the day – and the dog bounds up onto the podium and gripping it with both paws, becomes POTUS!

LEONARD QUART: A city Sunday of walking and political reflection

There is nothing new here, since racism and racist “dog whistles” is a powerful basis for Trump’s support.

SOUL SUPPORT: Respond this way

Experiment. If your way isn't working, try another.

Great Barrington should have a statue of W.E.B. Du Bois

In a letter to the editor, Daniel Klein writes: “Du Bois was clearly the most celebrated resident in our history. To honor and memorialize him seems absolutely appropriate.”

Commercial ‘pot shops’ will hurt the drug cartels

In his letter to the editor, Jon Piasecki writes: “Squailia’s neo-Puritan zeal is misguided and harmful to our communities and economy. We need marijuana brought out of the darkness and into the light.”

SOUL SUPPORT: In honor of the red tulip

How can we honor all parts of ourselves? And our lives?

Communities should ban commercial pot shops

In his letter to the editor, Richard Squailia writes: "I do not want the identity of West Stockbridge, or other small towns, to be changed by allowing pot tourism."

ORANGE ALERT: The (almost) daily outrage

President Trump had international affairs on his mind Tuesday morning. It was really only a matter of time before the president chimed in on the Emmy Awards. 

EDITORIAL: Neal surprisingly unschooled on free-speech issues

The prohibitions and penalties in the Israel Anti-Boycott Act that Congressman Neal is sponsoring sound like a glaring departure from the American tradition of free speech.

Reclaim New York is a ‘pseudo’ grassroots campaign

In his letter to the editor, Bobby Houston writes: “The best way to actually reclaim New York is to vote out the Trump toady, John Faso, elect somebody who doesn't take huge donations from hate-money billionaires “