Rachel Maddow has become a celebrity. She is paid like a celebrity, and, like a celebrity, she is not accountable to us or to a profession. In the midst of transition from journalist to celebrity, she lost perspective.
Any degree one pursues in college has required classes. Maybe it is time that colleges add classes to their curriculum that evenhandedly discusses difficult topics.
We have now arrived at a moment of reckoning. We have devolved into playing political chess with frightened, traumatized refugees fleeing poverty, crime, and political oppression.
Please, let your community police departments and leaders know if anyone tries to intimidate you into silence. Do it in real time. It may be a criminal violation of your civil rights.
Ugliness on the Great Barrington Facebook Community Board has a big bark, but not much bite. In that, our board continues to follow the natural flow of human life.
There is a lot more at stake than the matter of a little bit more convenience for customers of Price Chopper; it has much more to do with the fabric of Great Barrington's business community and the long-term well-being of our local economy.
The neighborhood lacks energy and drama on this silent day after Thanksgiving, and I quickly retreat to my computer and apartment. Somehow, however, I miss seeing and hearing an angry pro-Palestinian rally in nearby Washington Square Park, where 2,000 protesters gathered with a laundry list of demands.
There has been much rhetoric in support of Palestinians. But where is the rage towards Hamas? Hamas is a terrorist organization whose sole purpose is the destruction of Israel.
Please stop thinking someone is one way or another because of the number after his or her name. Eighteen or 80, take people where and how you find them; judge their level of functioning based on observation not anticipation.
Neither Johnson nor McCarthy is likely to be nominated for a Profile in Courage award for their legislative accomplishments. They are too busy placating a handful of unmanageable, obstructionist narcissists in their own party who should never have been elected to offices of public trust in the first place.
Have you considered the lack of new construction of multi-family workforce rental housing in Great Barrington? Sure, existing structures have been and are in the process of being renovated and repurposed for rental housing, but there has been no new workforce construction in ages.
