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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.

This West Wing should learn from ‘The West Wing’

Joe Biden, the waters around you are rising fast. You have a choice: Withdraw or drown.

Patrick White has been a great supporter of the Mohican people and deserves to represent the 3rd Berkshire District

We have seen local leaders come and go over and over these past 200 years. We need more like Patrick White.

Two thoughts on the ‘assassination’ attempt

Am I the only one who finds the irony of a gun attack on Donald Trump—since he has called for so much violence aimed at his “enemies”—beyond ironic?

Will the Trump haters take responsibility for what happened last Saturday?

The Edge has a group of regular writers—I could name them here but won't—who constantly lambaste Donald Trump, calling him an existential threat to democracy and worse, all out of what seems to be intense hatred.

STEPHEN COHEN: Pictorial art and censorship

Can we turn our backs on our artistic heritage because the works make us uncomfortable or are not politically correct today even though they were created in a different world?

The dogless days of summer

Our children, at least the two-legged ones, are long gone. But the house was never emptier than after Percy left it.

I WITNESS: Is the sky really falling?

Instead of running his mouth, which is his typical modus operandi, Donald Trump is golfing and enjoying the spectacle of the Democratic Party doing what it does best: freaking out and cannibalizing itself, with plenty of help from media pundits.

SHEELA CLARY: The Ten Commandments of the Berkshire summer season

Thou shalt not take the name JT in vain. Nor that of AG—Arlo Guthrie—though ‘tis not his season.

CONNECTIONS: What would Frank Church have to say about Project 2025?

Without fear or favor, and unfettered, the Church Committee launched a series of investigations into American intelligence agencies, including the CIA, NSA, and FBI.

LEONARD QUART: Some good news in a time when it is hard to find any

Labour won the election with the pragmatic, non-doctrinaire candidacy of Sir Keir Starmer, who repositioned the party away from the left and toward the center.

SHEELA CLARY: Lies and truth

Among the tragic ironies of failing to say out loud what you know to be true is that you don’t learn until it is too late that most people agreed with you.

PETER MOST: Monumental intervention

GB, take the time between now and September 2025 to consider the town that you are and the one you aspire to be.

I WITNESS: Postmortem

How do you choose between a life-long liar who has already taken a sledgehammer to our democracy and stacked the courts with far-right, theocratic zealots, and an enfeebled incumbent who presents as frail and confused?

Kudos to Great Barrington for its Lake Mansfield Improvement Project

I walked the new pedestrian path that joins the boat launch to the beach last weekend, and the landscaping along the shore will serve to make Lake Mansfield a peaceful respite for our community as well as an inviting destination for visitors.

Some thoughts on something other than Biden

I love living in the Berkshires and hate the roads.

It is time to bid Biden a grateful farewell

Just because something is unprecedented doesn't mean it should be off limits. In fact, new thinking and bold action is exactly what is needed in these unprecedented times.