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Reporter Julian Mendoza’s front-page Recorder photo of a policeman toting a semi-automatic rifle outside Greenfield High on Feb. 15 [“Police investigate threat phoned in to high school”] spoke volumes to me about the state of our “civil” society — not...

I read of Ellen Boyer‘s upcoming retirement as the director of the Greenfield Public Library with mixed emotions [“Turning the page at library,” Recorder, Feb. 24]. Of course I wish her well as she begins the next well-deserved chapter of her life....

I find it quite disheartening to see roughly half a nation have no empathy for those who are in dire need. Now let me first say that if you are not of Indigenous descent, then you are also an immigrant. That being said, that leaves about 95% of us...

Thank you Ben Tobin for your column regarding early intervention [“Spotting disabilities early vital,” Feb. 23] but trouble begins from the day a child exits the hospital with a required car seat encouraging parents to immobilize them in this device...

Thanks to reporter Chris Larabee for highlighting the extraordinarily rapid warming of our climate [“January sees record-setting warmth,” Recorder, Feb. 21]. This is a hair-on-fire moment. "Someone else" is not taking care of this, and "new...

Over breakfast this morning I read that Wednesday, March 1 is a day of action to mark the anniversary of the war in Yemen — eight years — and that every 75 seconds a child dies of starvation in that country. This is an astounding statistic, and even...

In a recent column about sports and the military’s relatively meritocratic hierarchy, as compared to our society in general, I was reminded of a story my Dad told me about how, at a port of call on the Eastern seaboard of the United States, nearing...

It should be noted that state Sens. Paul Mark, Joanne Comerford, Anne Gobi, and Jacob Oliveira voted to end term limits for the state Senate president. The official reason: They want to be on the same playing field as the governor and House speaker,...

The one-year anniversary of Russia’s war on Ukraine is this week, Feb. 24. Pioneer Valley residents can help by volunteering to help Ukrainians learn English to widen their employment opportunities while their economy suffers from the invasion. I am a...

How wonderful to wake to the news that our fearless leader just made a surprise visit to Ukraine. Of course that's much more important than going to our southern border, where undocumented immigrants are pouring over the border, Cartels are raping and...

The recent letter by forester Joe Zorzin criticizes Gov. Maura Healey’s planned moratorium on logging in state-owned forests (“The forestry wars,” Recorder, Feb. 14). He notes that “policymakers do not appreciate the full complexity of forests.” I...

The heroic struggle to speak that Joanna Buoniconti described in her column “The voice that I earned” (Recorder, Feb. 7) reminded me of Dr. Francis Duda, a pediatric pulmonologist at Baystate Medical Center. In my decades of experience as a...

The Feb. 15 Recorder had two interesting articles that are related for those who know their Massachusetts history since at least 1978.That year a ballot question passed, and it was called Proposition 2½. While it is complicated in its execution, it...

The number of those killed by the 7.8 earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria on Feb. 6 has risen above 40,000, with many more thousands injured. Years of war in Syria (civil, with regional and “great power” rivalries involved) have left damaged...

I appreciate Terry Sprecker’s rebuttal (“Getting it right on forests,” Recorder, Feb. 11) to my Jan. 31 letter and must agree with and expand on some of the statements. A. I totally agree that the main purpose of our forests is for the benefit of our...

Not that I haven’t had my own issues with columnist Jon Huer, but fairness nudges me to point out that what letter writer Ethan Robertson (“Racial paternalism in column,” Recorder, Feb. 14) says Huer wrote about race (“The art of the duel: How to...

Hunter Biden was at the top of his class at Yale Law and served as the editor of the Yale Law Review. He also studied international affairs and edited a cross-cultural journal while also at Yale. Biden was hired to help Burisma with corporate...

I am proud to serve western Massachusetts on the Governor’s Council and hope to continue to provide updates on the work I am doing in this role. I was sworn in on Jan. 5 during the governor’s inaugural ceremony at the State House. With a new...

I was shocked and horrified by the report that someone in the Massachusetts Legislature has crafted a bill offering reduced sentences to prisoners of the state for donating their organs. Am I living in liberal, caring Massachusetts or China or India?...

A long overdue thank you to Tolley Jones for the many insightful columns she has written in this newspaper about her experience as a Black woman in this country. With painful and often searing prose she shares with us how systemic racism, white...