Commercial properties must be maintained, secured, and either operated or transferred to those willing and able to do so. When buildings fall into disrepair—jeopardizing lives, livelihoods, and the community’s well-being—the burden ultimately falls on the town.
Donald Trump is a zero-sum kind of a guy. He only feels that he has won if everyone else loses, and in order for everyone to lose, they have to be destroyed.
Trump took office and brought a regime set on revenge and retribution and committed to the destruction of institutional norms. It is an administration much more nihilistic than conservative.
We have lost so much in the transformation of these ancient days of honoring, giving thanks, and celebration, now trivialized and commercialized, as is so much of our impoverished culture.
No one could have contemplated that a well-intentioned bylaw designed to preserve historic cottages could be leveraged to create an enormous resort village in a rural residential zone.
I encourage readers of The Berkshire Edge to help Elder Services of the Berkshires with a donation! It will help to build local resilience into this service in the face of uncertainties emanating from D.C.
Let us be crystal clear: At this very moment, Trump and the oligarchs, kleptocrats, and grifters who have assembled around him like iron filings around a magnet are in the process of picking your pocket.
The folks pressing ahead with this unfinished product assure us that they will finish the job and fix the mistakes in due course. They call doing that “phase two.” But they can offer no guaranty that “phase two” will happen or that it will look as we are being told it will look.
In preparing for this campaign, I have spent a lot of time listening to residents’ concerns, using the information gathered to form solutions that I hope to implement when elected.
Leigh Davis is already stepping up to the plate as promised for disability rights, housing advocacy, and putting people like myself first and foremost.
