Opinion
My Turn: Today’s the day
By JOANNA BUONICONTI
Deep breath. Those of you who are familiar with my work are very familiar with the fact that I approach any political issue with a high degree of trepidation. And this topic is no different.As a little girl who grew up during the Obama presidency and...
My Turn: Nuclear power is neither clean nor green
By AARON FALBEL, MEG FISHER-KRUGMAN, DAVID GOODWIN, LAURA WILLIAMS
As we write this, the commonwealth’s climate and clean energy bill is struggling to obtain the votes to pass in informal sessions after having stalled during the regular legislative session. While there are many promising components to this bill, as...
Jennifer Atlee: Easy ways to curb disinformation
If you’re on social media or know people who are (hint: that’s all of us), you can help create a saner country. How? By helping to combat disinformation.We are being encouraged to hate and fear each other. This isn’t one-sided, and it’s especially...
Gerard “Ardi” Keim: New mandates on ADUs don’t make sense
My wife and I enjoy our retirement in Greenfield. We live north of the high school on a third of an acre. We, and our neighbors, have well-kept yards with beautiful gardens. There are more of the same on much smaller lots between here and downtown,...
Rob Ward: Give careful thought at voting booth
When you ask who I’m voting for, I say, “I’m voting for a dozen plus attributes: decency, integrity, sensibility, courage, stability, saneness, honesty, maturity, inclusion, transparency, moral character, normal behavior, welfare of people over...
From Global to Local: When you feel your true self
By H. PATRICIA HYNES
On a blackboard in a 1930s log cabin at Jacob’s Pillow dance theater in the hills of western Massachusetts, I came upon an intriguing question written in chalk: When do you feel your true self? Visitors had left responses on the blackboard, some...
My Turn: Electoral College not best idea to start with
By PHILIP LUSSIER
As we enter the final days before a very critical election, I’m prompted to reflect on the role of the Electoral College in deciding the fate of our nation.It is a curious institution. It was crafted as a compromise between two different parts of the...
My Turn: Bridging the divide in our country
By BECCA KING
I would like to thank the Rev. Heather Blais rector of the Episcopal Church of Saints James and Andrew in Greenfield, for her Oct. 12 column “Let us be more curious than certain.” In it, she cites how in these polarized times we stop seeing our...
Connecting the Dots: Doesn’t decency matter?
By JOHN BOS
I am, as I’m sure many of you are, totally exhausted by the coverage of the presidential campaigns. This fatigue is exacerbated by the constant and intense flow of political news, particularly from 24-hour news channels and social media.Many voters...
Jim Bates: Climate change and the dream
“We’ve known that climate change is getting worse,” a recent My Turn writer proclaims.No. We don’t know climate change is getting worse. Or as Einstein would say, it’s all relative.Any climate information or research from a college or a university has...
John Babits: Called names
This week, I was called a racist, a facist, a terrorist, a Nazi, and garbage.I pretty much mind my own business, hope others mind theirs, and treat people like I want to be treated.And usually, I am.You do you, I do me, and neither of us will say...
The World Keeps Turning: Avoiding election anxiety
By ALLEN WOODS
For people who care deeply about national politics, the 2024 election is barreling down on us like the locomotive in the 1950s TV Superman intro, but we don’t have the superpowers to stop it. Continuing to stand on the tracks isn’t really a smart...
My Turn: Trump’s grasp sorely lacking
By EDWARD M. DOWD
Not long before the presidential election in 2020, a Republican friend warned me not to vote for Joe Biden. They said, “If he is elected you will lose everything you have in your 401(k).” The friend may have been well-meaning yet had obviously not...
My Turn: The price of legislating morality
By JUDITH TRUESDELL
Thomas Jefferson did not always live up to his ideals, but he was a master at articulating the goals of good government in defending the rights of man.In considering what kind of government I would like to live under, considering why people need...
My Turn: Fanciful writing aside, I’ll take Trump
By WALT GORMAN
Well, Election Day is fast approaching. As I stare out my living room window and sigh at all the leaves I have yet to rake, I sigh even more after reading the letters and My Turns from Democrats on this editorial page. Advil helps.One writer says...
My Turn: Will our votes make us complicit? Or not?
By DEBORAH ANDREW
Our votes are an expression of our conscience and have meaning, whether or not our choice prevails.In this presidential election, our votes can declare our approval/support of violations of the Constitution, our own laws, humanitarian law, and...
As I See It: How Trump played with God and America, for five days in July
By JON HUER
On Oct. 14, in Oaks, Pennsylvania, Donald Trump’s campaign was interrupted twice by medical emergencies in the crowd, and then Trump did a strange thing: He stopped his town hall Q&A and requested Schubert’s “Ave Maria” (“Hail Mary” in Latin) to be...
My Turn: Eliminate MCAS maybe but ...
By PATRICIA CROSBY
I guess I will trust the recommendations of my former education colleagues and vote “yes” on ballot Question 2: that is, to eliminate MCAS as a high school graduation requirement. Teachers make a persuasive case that standardized testing creates...
Richard Di George: Demonstrating severe lack of leadership
The reasons for Donald Trump not to be our next president are many and here is just a short list. His attitude during the whole COVID thing was completely unprofessional and disrespectful to the science field. You see, Trump is a know-it-all, and one...
Jonathan von Ranson: Patterns of fascism
Raising its head in our country right now is the specter of rule by the privileged few based on the “selling” of intolerance and fear, also known as fascism. It’s masquerading, as usual, as leaders who care about the working class.Whatever one’s...
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