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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.

What I admire about transgender people as a psychotherapist

What I admire about trans people going through this process is that each trans client of mine was honest about what they were feeling, and they were brave to hang out with these feelings.

Statement from the Berkshire Hills Regional School Committee regarding its vote to ask voter approval for a new Monument Mountain Regional High School

We endorse the Massachusetts School Building Authority-funded project because it is the best option for our students, for taxpayers, and for our community.

Inconvenient truth about Monument Mountain Regional High School

Vote "No" on the proposition to fund the over-sized, over-staffed, and ego-centric building that we cannot afford. The town budget has been pared and stripped to cater to the BHRSD administration.

I WITNESS: Nobel Prize endorsement

I write today to discuss the nomination of United States President Donald John Trump.

SHEELA CLARY: Toward a better state of debate

Charlie Kirk has now vacated the debate stage. It is empty once again. Who will fill it? Who should it be, and how?

Good job, New York Times

A Sept. 8 New York Times article establishes in damning detail how one of the world’s largest and most famous banks enabled Mr. Epstein’s crimes for many years, even after his conviction as a sex offender, despite multiple warnings by several of its own high-ranking internal watchdogs.

LEONARD QUART: All right we are two cities

As buyers and renters look for places to live, many neighborhoods in the outer boroughs that were once working- and lower-middle-class become more expensive and gentrified.

BRIGHT SPOTS: Week of September 10, 2025

Standing up for immigrants, public safety, and public health!

Tribute to Don Goranson

​Don Goranson had a “can-do” vision, and he helped us develop a better place to live.

Trump claims Republicans are ‘entitled’ to five additional House seats as an excuse to gerrymander Texas election districts

In this case, when Republicans go low, Democrats have to go just as low or cede elections going forward.

STEPHEN COHEN: The new legality — The Supreme Court and its politics

I am sad to say this, but it seems we are closer to a legal coup d’etat than at any time in our history, with a Supreme Court working to insure that Trump’s illegal interpretations of government power and his use of it to punish dissent and his enemies is legitimate.

Correction to announcement of Kevin Burke performance

Mr. Burke appeared on the South Berkshire Concert Series at Simon's Rock in the early '80s when the series was housed in the ARC Theater.

I WITNESS: The war at home

This has nothing to do with finding genuine solutions to criminal activity in our nation’s largest urban centers. It is about the gratuitous display of naked aggression and the unconstitutional federal takeover of those cities.

SHEELA CLARY: Handy handbook about the Country Roads of south Berkshire

Please get off the roads and into the woods. Please?

Unaffordable Great Barrington

The high cost of living in Great Barrington is an unfair burden to retirees and has reached a point where serious consideration should be given to changing the allocation of funds to better the majority of the taxpayers, not just a few.

Seeing and not seeing my mother

And why teddy bears are such leading men.