Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Greening Greenfield is using an approach that is both comprehensive and proactive in trying to set the path for the community. Ambitious? No doubt. But in trying to be an agent of change, the thinking has to be on a large scope with many interconnected steps, even if …
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Now that the clamor surrounding the hearing of the same-sex marriage cases before the United States Supreme Court has eased, perhaps everyone can take a deep breath here — even those justices. It was a two-day legal whirlwind as the court heard a challenge first to California’s Proposition …
Monday, April 1, 2013
Checks and balances ... they are a necessary part of the process at all levels of governing, including when responding to the voters. It’s why, then, the Greenfield Town Council should not simply serve as a rubber stamp to citizen petitions, no matter how individual councilors may personally …
Sunday, March 31, 2013
Brief thoughts on some of the events making news from around Franklin County and the North Quabbin area: Dateline Greenfield: Banking on an increase in state aid, the Greenfield School Committee has signed off on a $17.1 million draft budget that includes a hefty 8.5 percent increase over …
Friday, March 29, 2013
Recent news stories have shed more light on the complex and tortured life of Adam Lanza, the 20-year-old who killed 20 first-graders and six women at Sandy Hook Elementary School back in December. They also illuminate, at least partially, the terrible dilemma faced by his mother, Nancy, as …
Thursday, March 28, 2013
What must it be like to live in a place where the ground can suddenly open up and swallow you whole? That’s what folks in some parts of Florida are dealing with, particularly in the wake of the horrific fate of a man whose bedroom suddenly collapsed a …
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
If we were writing the story of the Franklin County Courthouse reconstruction project, it would be classified as science fiction. That’s because this particular effort seems to be operating in some sort of alternative universe where time and efficiency never merge. In reality, however, the delays we’ve been …
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Open government — it’s an idea that is hard to argue against. And it’s true that the traditional proponents of transparency and openness include many of our elected officials. But as the public is too well aware, there’s a difference between what you preach and what you practice. …
Monday, March 25, 2013
We don’t know how far off the ground the latest effort to have a skate park in Greenfield will get, but we wish its backers well. Undoubtedly, there are some large hurdles — accessibility, neighborhood compatibility, financing, oversight — to overcome. That’s not to say the idea of …
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Brief thoughts on some of the events making news from around Franklin County and the North Quabbin area: Dateline Greenfield: A clock has been started on the possibility of a biomass plant being built in Greenfield. As reported last week, a Superior Court judge has accepted the agreement …
