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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.

Great Barrington’s airport needs to add facilities

In his letter to the editor, Noah Meyerowitz writes: “This airport simply will not survive forever without changes, and it would be a detrimental, tragic, and economic loss for Great Barrington.”

ORANGE ALERT: The (almost) daily outrage

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2016/11/18/politics/jeff-sessions-racism-allegations/ As Sessions learned that some members of the Klan had smoked marijuana on the evening of the slaying, he said aloud that he thought the KKK was: "OK until I found out they smoked pot.”

Buttons for Obama 

How ever could I have imagined that one day I would celebrate in Africa the inauguration of our first African American president?

ON DREAMS: In praise of dreams forgotten

To light up the world, we dig deep for nature’s oil, but end up polluting our atmosphere. To dig deep for dreams may end up polluting our mind’s atmosphere.

Reflections on the Women’s March in NYC

There was much more joy than anger, much more hope and resolve than despair and resentment being expressed, or so it felt to me.

ORANGE ALERT: The (almost) daily outrage

Trump signed a directive that will effectively halt an Obama-era Labor Department rule that requires brokers to act in a client’s best interest, rather than seek the highest profits for themselves.

ORANGE ALERT: The (almost) daily outrage

President Trump blasted Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull over a refugee agreement and boasted about the magnitude of his electoral college win.

SOUL SUPPORT: Sometimes there are no words… only feelings

When all else fails. Write, scribble, draw what you are feeling. It might help. Or dance, sing, hit a tennis ball...

ORANGE ALERT: The (almost) daily outrage

Rex Tillerson, former CEO of Exxon/Mobil is confirmed as Secretary of State. But his stake in Russia’s energy industry could create a very blurry line between his interests as an oilman and his role as America’s leading diplomat.

Lessons from the Women’s March in Washington

On Inauguration Day, I headed for Washington, D.C., my hometown, with three other Berkshire women… our hostess — who is the wife of a long-time career foreign-service officer — offered “Democracy is not a spectator sport.”

ORANGE ALERT: The (almost) daily outrage

Jihadist groups on Sunday celebrated the Trump administration’s ban on travel from seven Muslim-majority countries, saying the new policy validates their claim that the United States is at war with Islam.

Op-ed: Undermining greatness

The executive order targets the wrong people, complicates an already extreme vetting process that works, and damages our relationship with allies all while giving a new recruiting tool to extremists.

Letter to editor: New Berkshire Co-op design is flawed

In her letter to the editor, Beth Carlson writes: “This looks like a big supermarket store. The design does not incorporate the concept of a community gathering place, one of the essential functions of the Co-op.”

Berkshire Theatre Group supports Four Freedoms Coalition protests

In her letter to the editor, Kate Maguire of the Berkshire Theatre Group writes: “There cannot be boundaries in the arts. We do not discriminate. Our buildings are sanctuaries for everyone to tell their stories. We do not discriminate in which stories we will tell, which culture we may seek to know.”

ORANGE ALERT: The (almost) daily outrage

Mr. Trump also established a religious test for refugees from Muslim nations: He ordered that Christians and others from minority religions be granted priority over Muslims.

SOUL SUPPORT: Signs of well-being, signs of suffering

Navigating this world isn’t always easy or clear which direction to go in…we need signs.