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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.

The Eight Town Regional School District Planning Board is anything but ‘reckless’

Having previously served on the Eight Town Regional School District Planning Board for two years, I can attest that this board, operating under the firm leadership of Lucy Prashker, is the absolute antithesis of “reckless.”

I WITNESS: The upside-down world of Moms for Liberty

Welcome to Moms for Liberty, an organization that believes in personal liberty and freedom. It is important to understand that Moms for Liberty appears to have elasticized the concepts of liberty and freedom to better fit the contours of their own unique ideology.

Nicki Wilson and the Save the Triplex group will continue the founding mission of the Triplex Theatre

Nicki is a visionary and a doer. Nicki and her team's energy and commitment will guide the Triplex into the successful cornerstone of downtown Great Barrington that it has been for the last 28 years.

Let’s debate this merger on the merits with accurate facts

The use of "reckless" by the authors of the recent letter to the editor to describe the detailed and methodical work of the Eight Town Regional District Planning Board over the last three and a half years is strikingly misplaced.

We are dismayed at the reckless vote taken by the Eight Town Regional School District Planning Board on July 18

Our youths' futures deserve better than this flawed process and its conclusion.

The value of sound money verses legal tender by decree

The U.S. Dollar has reigned supreme for over a half a century, unrivaled by any other currency. In the coming years, however, this may change as the Basel III Agreement comes into play and nation states accumulate Tier One assets.

Dancing Outside: A perfect Berkshires moment

While I’m not dancing at Jacob’s Pillow, I am surrounded by everything I love about living here: art, nature, music, and creative peers.

CONNECTIONS: The bomb or the bombshell

If it ends up that the two most popular movies of the summer are about a destructive weapon and a suggestive doll, what does that say?

SHEELA CLARY: Good at my job

How am I supposed to figure out the hundreds of points at which all the hundreds of mom jobs aren’t mine anymore?

PETER MOST: Case studies

Let's take a look at some of the rhetoric surrounding the debates on local issues to assess whether it withstands real-world scrutiny.

I WITNESS: Closing the circle

She often warned me that I would miss her someday. I would always raise one eyebrow as if to say, “Don’t be so sure, Mom.” Now, barely a week later, I find that I already miss her in ways I never could have imagined before.

LEONARD QUART: Remembering the past

One memory that sustains me is recalling my many years as a university professor — most of them happy and satisfying ones.

Barbie summer begins with ‘Tiny Shoulders’

Pink celebrations usher in a summer blockbuster.

CONNECTIONS: Democracy needs defending

Democracy is not a spectator sport; it demands participation. The screens have multiplied and the percentage who vote has diminished.

BOOK REVIEW: Norman Solomon’s ‘War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of its Military Machine’

Solomon details the ways in which the media accepts the premises of America’s wars—fighting for democracy, intervening humanely—and hides the horrific fate of its overseas victims, most often people of color in Asia or the Middle East.

PETER MOST: Befuddled in the Berkshires

We have gotten over most of our move-to-the-Berkshires hiccups, but I am still occasionally befuddled.