With few exceptions, none of these candidates are running for president: They are running for vice president—all except for Mike Pence, that is. I can’t quite figure out what Mike Pence is doing.
William S. Hines was a young man of good education, good appearance, as well as “free and open manners.” He was also regarded as a thoroughly honest young man. On December 4, 1871, when he confessed to robbing a bank, he was 19 years old.
Wealth does not make someone a bad person. It does, however, enable someone to pay our high taxes, support our businesses, donate to our non-profits, hire local workers, and improve properties. These are people critical to the success of our town. Let’s not drive them away!
Would the townsfolk of Lenox, Stockbridge, Great Barrington, and Sheffield welcome more than a million cubic yards of PCBs and 10-plus-years of higher-level PCB-filled trucks riding through their local roads?
The fact is that adding yet another tax (yes I’m calling it a tax) to what Great Barrington citizens already endure is a brave proposal, despite its intentions.
A turtle’s journey is, as Hoagland puts it, “like the nightmare most of us have whimpered through, where we are weighted down disastrously while trying to flee; fleeing our home ground, we try to run.”
I chuckled at Rubiner’s “anyone with a pulse” help wanted sign and considered Prairie Whale’s “No Housing, No Work Force” plea without realizing these were signs of desperation. What was once an article here or sign there has become a drumbeat too loud for all of us to miss.
