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JOHN BREASTED: The Great Barrington Selectboard’s credibility gap

Transparency does not require officials to reveal legal strategy. It does require them to tell voters when the town has been sued.

PETER MOST: Bad counsel

Law firms, and lawyers, provide a service. If you are not happy with the service, you should find another service provider. Repeatedly, Great Barrington Town Counsel David J. Doneski has provided questionable service to the town.

LEONARD QUART: Summer in the city

The park provides a rich and sometime fascinating variety show, but it also delivers a naked view of the dark underside of urban life.

VIEWPOINT: Dharma of Swimming

Until a few years ago, I used to stand at the edge, unable to enter the water—pools, lakes, forget about the ocean. I perched helplessly.

Join me in supporting Leigh Davis

The Democratic Primary is September 3rd. The other candidates are good people, but they just don’t have Leigh’s fire.

VIEWPOINTS: Admiring President Biden

I met President Biden on a television show, one of the first I worked on, immediately after he became the senator from Delaware. He was a young man, full of energy and so kind to this 21-year-old news neophyte producing the program.

Candidate Nadia Milleron is real deal

Nadia, a farmer who lost her daughter in the 2019 crash of a Boeing 737 MAX.

I WITNESS: Your vote counts, now more than ever

We need not allow our constitutional republic to be consigned to the ash heap of history; we can stop them at the ballot box this November.

SHEELA CLARY: Taking up the challenge

I started this written reflection because I thought it would be a nice way to get some publicity for an excellent organization, but I realize I also have a more self-serving aim.

Remembering Stockbridge Police Sergeant Louis J. Peyron Sr.

Sergeant Peyron has gifted us with a rich legacy and was the personification of community policing.

Great Barrington Selectboard members endorse Vice Chair Davis for 3rd Berkshire District State Representative

Great Barrington Selectboard Chair Stephen Bannon, members Eric Gabriel, Garfield Reed, and Ben Elliot endorse Leigh Davis for 3rd Berkshire District State Representative.

South County needs someone who can really turn concerns into policy

While open letters can be useful in raising awareness, we also need someone who gets in the trenches with our neighbors.

CONNECTIONS: I want the bell curve back

I want people to realize it ain’t Trump; it is the series of political decisions made over a half century that opened the door for Trump.

Pete Buttigieg has what my more enlightened elders referred to as ‘The Knack’

Pete Buttigieg is a singular, special sort of creature. I am constantly impressed by his ability to muster a clarity that seems, for the most part, to elude the rest of us.

We need to empower the middle class with techniques like Patrick White’s

By taking away the hard-earned, after-tax savings middle-class people invested in their homes, the Commonwealth only ensures that their children will have a harder life and will be one step closer to needing Medicaid themselves.

Support for Patrick White for state representative for the 3rd Berkshire District

Patrick takes initiative and jumps in because he cares and is willing to put in the time and effort in to make a difference, even when success is not guaranteed.

Patrick White has our backs

I hope my friends and neighbors in the 3rd Berkshire District will join me in voting to send Patrick White to represent us in Boston.