This alarming incident is the latest example of the Trump administration unlawfully targeting student speech. When students face detention or deportation for lawful expression, it sends a message to all that the price of dissent is exile.
In 1900, an accident victim would have been carried home to recover or die, and few hospitals had an “emergency ward.” By 1945, all that had changed and hospitals began to organize their critical care resources into emergency departments.
Determining how the potential acquisition of Housatonic Water Works should be paid for needs to be at the top of the list for the town government before placing a warrant article in front of voters.
What is our political position? Do we force our fellows to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps? Do we judge them as inadequate, stupid, or immoral if they are poor? Do we turn our backs and let them suffer?
The Special Town Meeting Warrant is a half-baked idea posing as a solution. Proposing to purchase two utilities and working out the details later is neither a plan nor good governance.
At the upcoming Special Town Meeting, we hope to preapprove the town’s acquisition of both water companies with reasonable price flexibility through a resounding two-thirds-majority vote.
The reverence with which Andy came to be held in comedy circles was, at first, baffling to me. But I came to appreciate the daring, inventive, off-the-wall, boundary-breaking creativity that, experts say, reshaped American entertainment.
It should come as no surprise that Trump 2.0 is continuing the practice of knowing nothing about anything that he and his henchmen have done in the past, are doing in the present, or plan to do in the future.
We have the technology and the tools to ensure that every local business and resident is able to live in a home or apartment that is safe and, perhaps more importantly, healthy for themselves and for the land that we all depend on for the food we eat and the water we drink.
I appreciate that school districts are not a true apple-to-apple comparison, but the gist of the argument remains that we are in a bind in that the shrinking population cannot continue with the current spending trend.
If the process of making America "Great Again" turns us inward and convinces us to stop using our outsized wealth to serve the world’s less wealthy, we will all be lessened, and the country will be weakened.
If we stand together in the doorway of the federal building where some kids under orders from a billionaire are trying to fire people, we are probably doing as much as is necessary. To stop the steal? No, to stem the tide.
The way to stop Trump is simple: Fight him in the courts and mobilize to develop policies and spokesmen and -women to change the composition of the House and Senate in two years. Easy to say but hard to do.
As many have observed by now, this is a time of reckoning. This reckoning is happening because we cannot continue to ravage the Earth or continue to choose war when we have developed weapons of mass destruction.
