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Charney/My Turn: Unintended consequences

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

"The opposite of poverty is not wealth but justice.” — Bryan Stevenson Kiera, 16, was an honor student in Bartow, Fla., until she was expelled. Kiera, curious to find out if it was true that an eight-ounce plastic bottle filled with toilet cleanser and aluminum foil would smoke, experimented. And as happened, the bottle inflated, blew its cap and smoked. It was a … 0

Blixt/My Turn: Say ‘no’ to K12

Monday, June 17, 2013

Greenfield is selling out its educational legacy to the lowest bidder — a corporation that has established a solidly toxic reputation for profiteering, lying, manipulation, creepy ultra-right-wing politics and looting the public trust. K12 Inc. is called “The Monsanto of Education.” Does this seem too harsh? Only in that it may be unfair to Monsanto. K12 has spent three years openly and arrogantly … 0

Wedegartner/My Turn: Reappoint Jim Allen

Monday, June 17, 2013

For many reasons, it would be a mistake for the Town Council to not reappoint Jim Allen as a member of the Planning Board. I think we have only to look at the elections for town offices this year to understand that it is very hard to get people interested in serving their town on a volunteer basis, elected or appointed. Jim Allen … 0

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Doerner/My Turn: This time, they killed RFK

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Editor’s note: Carl Doerner is writing a series of My Turn submissions examining several assassinations in the United States. Just after midnight on this day 45 years ago, presidential candidate Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated in Los Angeles. Sirhan Sirhan and at least one other gunman approached … 0

Meyer/My Turn: Better get it right

Tuesday, June 4, 2013

On May 7, the Holyoke Fish Lift passed 21,608 American shad upstream. The next day they lifted 44,456 — the all-time, single-day record for the Connecticut River. In two days they’d passed over 66,000 shad — 6,000 more than the highest number ever to pass upstream through the … 0

Kimball/My Turn: Capitalism not at fault

Monday, June 3, 2013

Having just read the latest installment of philosophical bushwa of Mr. Jim Culleny containing the usual combination of God, faulty philosophy and quotes from some liberal publication, I am prompted to reply to his faulty premise on Karl Marx and capitalism. There certainly is an entity “sucking the … 1

Blagg: Annoying dramatic effects

Sunday, June 2, 2013

What bugs you? Are there things that just grate on your nerves or offend your common sense? I’ve got a bunch. Let’s take some common movie and TV conventions that really tick me off. First of all, there’s the “cigarette lighter on the fire sprinkler” bit. How many … 0

Bos/My Turn: A call for action

Friday, May 31, 2013

My friend in Putney is alarmed because the church she attends is not actively attentive to the end of life on earth as we know it. I’m talking about the crimes against humanity being perpetrated by every single person who consumes energy derived from the extraction of fossil … 0

In the Arena: Council’s budget surprise

Thursday, May 30, 2013

I guess if you hang around long enough, you get to see a little bit of everything. I thought I had written every budget story possible — towns struggling on a yearly basis to balance budgets in the wake of shrinking state aid and communities torn apart by … 0

Mosher/My Turn: Seeing behind the tricks

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Earlier this month, there was an interesting “My Turn” piece by my guy, Mr. X. He’s crying foul on the Greenfield Planning Board. Mr. X says that the abutters to the Mackin property never had opportunity to “cross examine” the developers. Mr. X says that the board shut … 0

Touloumtzis/My Turn: Sustainable transportation

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

We are writing as members of the Transportation Subcommittee of the Greenfield Sustainable Master Plan Advisory Committee. That’s a mouthful, but this process has been a straight-forward one: gathering information about our current transportation system, then trying to envision ways it could be improved looking 10 to 20 … 0

Tim Blagg: Let’s talk ‘scandals’

Sunday, May 26, 2013

I don’t know about you, but I’m pretty sick of hearing and reading about President Obama’s “scandals.” First of all, they’re not scandals. A scandal is when a sitting governor mysteriously disappears, reappears to lie about hiking on the Appalachian Trail, then turns out to have a South … 0

In the Arena: Pitiful Montague numbers

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Monday’s Montague annual town election was a big one for the incumbents, but not necessarily the democratic process. In a three-way race for selectman, incumbent Chris Boutwell won his second three-year term, easily outdistancing newcomers Jacobo Roque and Matthew McMullin. The three-way tussle for Gill-Montague School Committee was … 0

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Columns

Leverett Pond gets herbicide treatment

State will back Greenfield’s virtual school

Greenfield Post 81 splits weekend twin bill

State softball semifinals invade Powertown

Editorial: NMH course

Charney/My Turn: Unintended consequences

Keepers of the valley

Museum marks anniversary with free admission, special events

Harmony train

Arts & Entertainment Calendar: June 13 to June 19