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By STEPHEN HUSSEY
I have waited in vain for over a week to see what response there would be, in the letters and from our town offices, to the truly extraordinary front-page article from Jan. 22, that told of the upgrades completed on the Police Department’s dispatch center, the heart of our community’s emergency response system [“Police dispatch upgrades complete,” Recorder].
By TOLLEY M. JONES
By JODY HALL, CAROL LEBOLD, MARY LINK, ALEXADRA OSTERMAN, TIERTZ-LEAH SCHWARTZ and VICTORIA WORTH
By NANCY HAZARD
By WILLIAM LAMBERS
The Court of Appeals has upheld the bias verdict against the city of Greenfield and its former police chief. Leonard Kesten, who nominally represented the city but who was hired and paid by an insurance company, wants to consult with his “client” before deciding to seek a further appeal.
I’ve been away traveling. I’ll be back on the weekend. I’m glad I filled up with cheap Biden-era gas before heading to the airport. The next time I fill up, I’ll be looking for the stickers at the price of fuel that say “Felonious Trump did this.”
By MATTEO PANGALLO
By GORDON SHAW
Donald Trump promised in 2015 that if he got elected, America “would win so much we’d be sick and tired of winning.”
I guess it needs to be said yet again that DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) practices in the employment world do not mean hiring unqualified people over others because the former are part of some special population. DEI means making sure people who are also qualified get a fair, unbiased chance at being selected for a position.
I wanted to write this to give thanks to city officials for resolving a computer software glitch that created my recent incorrect property tax bill. I recently received a more than doubled property tax with fees and interest owed which, unbeknownst to me, was caused by a computer glitch. The staff was trying to resolve the problem but the software license company wasn’t making it easy for them as the software couldn’t be changed.
President Trump’s first important action is pardoning all Jan. 6 Capitol rioters (1,500-plus) regardless of what they did. One hundred and seventy-four U.S. Capitol Police officers were attacked and nearly a dozen people died in connection with the riot. Some of these rioters are members of Oath Keepers and Proud Boys.
By ANDREW VARNON
By BILL NEWMAN
By TODD DAMON
By JON HUER
Most liberals know Donald Trump is a selfish person, close to being a narcissist. But, in their anti-Trump zeal, they forget that he is also an amoralist, the twin brother of selfishness. It’s easier to see his selfishness, such as his extreme craving for popular adulation. But his amorality is much more dangerous in a president, though less well known. We know how to deal with selfishness, but not as easily with amorality.
By JANICE FLEURIEL
A friend recently reminded me of a banner displayed above one of the prominent banks in our town center. It was up there for over a year, during the brief period when racism and murder were finally being exposed in the mainstream news media. The banner read something to the effect of “Racism has no place in Greenfield.”
Trump’s Manifest Destiny: Greenland, Panama, Canada and now, Gaza, where he’ll turn the territory into “the Riviera of the Middle East” and “Make Gaza Beautiful Again.” Meanwhile — how are those egg prices going? You know, the groceries.
Instead of planning for the ethnic cleansing of and proposed land grab of war-torn Gaza, President Donald Trump should be proposing a Marshall Plan for the wartime destruction in Gaza. Yes, Gaza needs to be rebuilt. America bears responsibility for supplying the weapons Israel used to destroy Gaza’s apartment buildings and homes and places of worship, along with its infrastructure, schools, and 11 colleges and universities.
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