If we want leaders like Gov. Healey and Rep. Davis to continue serving Massachusetts, we must do more than cast a vote on Election Day. We must get involved now.
I believe that I am eligible for compensation of roughly $50 million. Truth be told, I might actually be eligible for much more than that, but I don’t want to be so selfish that the warriors who stormed the Capitol to kill Mike Pence and subvert an election are left empty-handed.
This is not a town that ignored its contractor and banked the work. It is a town that caught a problem and refused to ratify it. A documented, good-faith dispute over whether money is even owed is a very different thing from foot-dragging on an undisputed bill.
"The American people deserve to know the true costs of this conflict [with Iran], and they deserve transparency and honesty when their government commits the nation to war." — U.S. Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Jeff Merkley, and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
The screw is an elegant tool: Turn it clockwise, it holds; counterclockwise, it releases. No firmware updates. No hidden logic. It never misunderstands what it binds. Contrast this with today's AI-driven customer service.
Even if every accounting issue is corrected, the larger problem remains: Southern Berkshire is expensive to operate, and the cost of running the district continues to rise.
The designation does not obligate the town to take any specific action, but it does open doors. It offers a hand, and boy, when it comes to housing, we could sure use a hand.
In just five years, Yina Moore and her team have transformed the former movie house at 27 Park Street from a vacant building in need of major renovation into a vibrant cultural destination for North Berkshire.
The People’s Pantry is making choices now to accommodate increasing numbers of hungry neighbors. But neighbors can only do so much, and relying on charitable institutions to make up for these huge losses is a recipe for failure.
The U.K. still seems to posses a strain of social democratic decency that is an integral part of British political life, and so far, no Trump-like megalomaniacal monster has gained power.
Donald Trump, in a real-life example of metamorphosis, seems to have evolved from a sleazy, illiterate real estate con and habitual abuser of women into the president of the United States. Like their boss, the members of the Trump administration are also consummate morph-meisters.
