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As a former teacher and school administrator, I totally agree with writers Stephen Hussey and Dawn Morin, who each wrote a My Turn piece backing the need for a school resource officer in Greenfield. Their reasons for supporting an SRO are in line with...
Heather Cox Richardson recently wrote on Trump as a fascist. She describes fascism as rule by the elite few without obstacles to them achieving what they believe is best for everyone, because they know what’s best.The left uses "fascist" as a slur,...
Only days after replacing President Joe Biden as the nominee for the Democratic Party, Vice President Kamala Harris addressed the press and voters with a tangible, pragmatic and cost-effective policy that would actually help the average American. That...
By MARY REILLY PARSONS
It is beyond my comprehension why any one would vote for Donald Trump.I have talked to a couple of pro-Trump people and both of them said they were better off financially under him. To them I say, think of your country, not of your pocketbooks. The...
By DANIEL A. BROWN
As Election Day looms, I feel compelled to write something seeing that Nov. 5 will probably decide the fate of American democracy, although, if Kamala Harris wins, there will be months worth of Republican vote-counting shenanigans (a nice word for...
By JOHANNA NEUMANN
For the past two decades, America has accomplished a minor miracle. Despite a growing population, ballooning home sizes, a spike in the number of electronic devices we own, and more, electricity demand has remained largely stable. That’s a testament...
By ROB OKUN
With so many women’s lives in danger, men remain the largest group of passive supporters of reproductive rights in the country. We very well may hold the key that opens the front door to the White House.It’s no secret that men, especially young men,...
The U.S. president is a prominent and influential role model for all citizens, especially kids. That’s why the candidates’ character and conduct are extremely important factors in choosing the next president.Think about how the conduct of others...
I am writing in response to the arguments presented in the excellent article on Ballot Question 4 [“Question 4: A new chapter for psychedelics?” Recorder, Oct. 21].The supporters of the legalization of psychedelic drugs seem to have forgotten the...
“Make America great again.” That is Donald Trump’s slogan.If elected, Mr. Trump will expel hundreds of thousands of migrants. I ask, who will work in the fields harvesting our crops? Who will pick the pears, apples, peaches, etc.? Who will fill the...
Over a month ago on a beautiful Sunday afternoon, my partner and I drove past the scene of a very recent motorcycle crash. We first noticed the shredded parts strewn across the road, the helmets. Neither of us is a trained medical technician or doctor...
“Mabe it will entertain us, move us, make us think and feel.” — excerpt from program notes for “Grounded,” by the Metropolitan Opera On Saturday, Oct. 19, the Shelburne Falls Memorial Hall Association showed the Met Live in HD broadcast of...
By STEPHEN HUSSEY
According to the Oct. 11 story in the Recorder, “School resource officer proposal defeated,” the Greenfield School Committee’s majority opinion was to defeat the proposal for a school resource officer because some students would “not be comfortable...
By DAWN MORIN
At the Oct. 9 School Committee meeting, it was frustrating to hear the School Committee members vote down the idea of even discussing the possibility of an SRO (student resource officer) in the schools. To me, it is clear that five out of the seven...
Having lived in Greenfield for the past 16 years, I have displayed political signs in my yard on numerous occasions, never having one stolen, until now.It is happening all around the city, in my neighborhood and others. Home security cameras have...
The high turnover in the first year of Greenfield Mayor Virginia Desorgher’s administration merits a comprehensive review of the publicly available information related to the departures. For the good of the city, we would be remiss to not try to...
I watched the “Back to the Future” movies with my son many times because he really liked them. For those unfamiliar with the trilogy, “Doc” Brown has made a DeLorean car into a time machine.In “Back to the Future II,” we go to a future America where...
I will never forget the elderly customer who came into the cellular retailer I worked at in Greenfield in tears over the bill they had received in the mail that they could not afford. Charges upon charges that they were not made aware of before...
In the fall of 1970, my junior year at Tufts, my roommate invited me to join him at a college-sponsored Catholic retreat. I reminded him that I was Jewish and asked if I would be accepted there. He assured me that the college pastor, Father Fitz, was...
By LOUISE AMYOT
Paul Jablon’s Oct. 18 My Turn clearly exposed the enormous costs to the U.S. economy if Donald Trump tried to deport, as he has repeatedly promised to do, all undocumented immigrants [“Trump’s deportations would cost us dearly”].As Jablon explained,...
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