Choices, choices. When you're a dog (or two dogs), who owns a coffeeshop named Cafe Perspectivo, selecting just the right tattoo can be a challenge -- for many reasons.
As the TV anchors and the experts droned on and on with inane commentary, I wondered how many children in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Libya were being rendered homeless? How many children died of hunger, disease, and exposure while we got to know way too much about the 150 well-fed, adequately clothed, and financially secure people?
Women ran for office before they had the right to vote. They ran not to win but to do what women do best and prize most: to talk. They talked about any and every conceivable issue that plagued the minds of women.
The minute establishment figures start calling anyone who questions them a loony, fringe thinker, who, for the sake of all of us, has to get with it, and adapt the accepted position on something, you should be very, very suspicious.
In his letter to the Berkshire Hills School Committee, after the Committee declined to take action at this point on his proposed district funding formula, Chip Elitzer writes: "The fact that a $1,000 unit of property abutting the GB/Stockbridge line on the GB side is going to pay $9.87 next fiscal year, while a $1,000 unit on the other side of the line is going to pay $3.28 is – in my opinion – an embarrassment for the most liberal county in the most liberal state in the country."
It isn’t fair to sit on the sidelines and say, “Why don’t you cut, why are my taxes so high?” unless you can say what you are willing to do without. Here’s your chance. Come on Tuesday, March 24, and tell us.
In his second letter proposing an amended agreement between the towns of the Berkshire Hills Regional School District, Chip Elitzer calculates the impact his formula would have on each town.
The support of the three towns for this amendment will assure us that spending time and money on revising the entire District Agreement would be worthwhile. So let's get it on the warrants now, build voter awareness of the issue, and see where we stand.
