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Jim Culleny: Did Marx have it right?

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

In an example of how things can turn — not on a dime maybe, but on a kopek or a dollar— it could be Karl Marx was right after all. Marx’s assessment of capitalism’s tendency to inevitably suck the marrow of the masses, might be turning out just as he predicted. If your patriot heart recoils at this, think “austerity” for the masses … 0

My Turn: The many faces of GCC

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Earlier this spring, I was given the privilege of addressing the members and supporters of the Greenfield Community College Foundation at its “Changing Lives Through Education” annual fund campaign kickoff event. For me, it was the perfect opportunity to represent the thousands of students who have been helped through the support and volunteer fundraising efforts of these and many more wonderful people over … 0

My Turn: Behind the wall of hate

Monday, May 20, 2013

Recently, some NBA player came out and announced he was gay. My response was, “So what? Good for you.” In other words, why is this still a big deal? However, I then had a conversation with a young woman I will call Amy who told me a tale that answered that question for … 0

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My Turn: Tangled in a wired world

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

“Grandma! Attack!” her 10-year-old grandson commands. Grandma is armed with a small, plastic figurine and two remotes angled at the TV screen. Her figurine is Whirlwind, an elfish, bird-like creature, one of the few without claws, fangs or a bazooka. Her grandson has chosen Flashwing, who is already … 0

Jim Culleny: Education in inertia

Monday, April 8, 2013

I’ve been preoccupied lately by the term “inertia,” which most of us most likely first became aware of in a school science lesson. A classic definition of inertia might be: Inertia is the resistance of any physical object to a change in its state of motion or rest, … 0

Tim Blagg: Avoiding the nightmare

Sunday, April 7, 2013

It’s a nightmare scenario — the kind you see in shoot-em-up movies — that officials all over the world are working to avoid. A terrorist group gets its hands on highly radioactive material and uses it to build some kind of nuclear bomb or a device that scatters … 0

My Turn: The virtual school

Saturday, April 6, 2013

In the column by Chris Collins (March 29) titled “Virtual school details lacking,” he is critical of the associate commissioner, Jeff Wulfson, for being unsure of the “finer points” on how the new Commonwealth of Massachusetts Virtual Schools (CMVS) will be run. Likewise, he is critical of the … 0

In the Arena: Greenfield's poppin'

Thursday, April 4, 2013

Here’s a lot of political news popping in Greenfield on this April Fools week, and, as usual, not a lot of it is good. Winn loss? The town took a body blow when it was revealed that Fire Chief Michael Winn had been offered an opportunity to become … 0

Silencing King’s voice

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Editor’s note: Carl Doerner is writing a series of My Turn submissions examining several assassinations in the United States. Today, April 4, marks the 47th anniversary of the evening Dr. Martin Luther King came to New York’s Riverside Church to deliver the speech in which, to thundering applause, … 0

Spring’s teachable moment

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

There’s a watershed opportunity for teachers investigating migratory fish this spring. It’s the final season classrooms will raise Atlantic salmon eggs from a massive federal hatchery program, dismantled after 46 years. It’s a chance to teach kids that “extinct,” in evolutionary biology terms, means exactly that: gone, forever. … 0

True consequences

Monday, April 1, 2013

When I was 7 years old, I walked down to my favorite playground in Riverside Park and watched a man get beaten half to death. Despite its current upscale ambiance, the Upper West Side of New York City … 1

Just a dream ...

Sunday, March 31, 2013

I’ve been following with considerable interest the problems Boeing’s been having with its 787 “Dreamliner. On the drawing board, the new airplane is an engineering marvel — a long-range, mid-size wide-body, twin-engine airliner that can carry from 210 … 0

Virtual school details lacking

Thursday, March 28, 2013

It became pretty apparent while watching last Thursday night’s Greenfield School Committee meeting that the only thing Massachusetts school officials really know about the new law governing virtual schools is what to name them. “It’s a ‘commonwealth virtual school,’ a unique entity,” Jeffrey Wulfson, state deputy commissioner of … 0

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