As our “drill, baby drill” president dismantles environmental regulations and hands out tax breaks to the fossil fuel industry, one might expect our Massachusetts legislature to redouble its resolve to address our burgeoning climate emergency.
Towns like Great Barrington and Lenox may find that, despite receiving state approval, many units still go to applicants from outside the community—fueling the perception that local residents are being shut out.
We can’t let Donald Trump turn America into a police state where armed, masked men can demand proof of citizenship of anyone they encounter and jail those whose answers they don’t like.
Is it even possible to be a cult member if you are not sequestered in some distant, inaccessible location, cut off from former friends, neighbors, and family, but are living, instead, an independent life within an ordinary community?
Hopefully we can also agree that embedding guerrilla fighters in hospitals, schools, places of worship, and places where children convene is also wrong.
What would happen if Israel left Gaza to avoid the deaths of more Palestinians? Clearly, Hamas would re-arm and the cycle of violence against Israel would continue.
