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By RICHARD FEIN

In the name of enrollment diversity, should race be a factor in college admissions? Should college student loan debts be forgiven in whole or in part because they are a burden on the debtor?College admissionsThis is my understanding. The case was...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

A federal disaster area declaration for the region is being sought by the U.S. senators from Massachusetts and the U.S. representatives for the state’s four westernmost counties following the floods that have destroyed crops at area farms and the...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Northampton Fire Chief Jon Davine was 27 years old when he entered the Massachusetts Firefighting Academy as a new recruit, before joining Northampton Fire Rescue in 1998. Now 25 years later, Davine will soon be the highest-ranking...

By CHRIS LARABEE

WHATELY — A Pioneer Valley native has been tapped to take over the town’s community development administrator position.At the end of June, the Selectboard approved hiring Northampton native Sylvie Jensen to fill the role vacated by Hannah Davis. The...

By VALLE DWIGHT and BRIAN MELANSON

Gov. Maura Healey’s proposed update to the state’s sex education curriculum covers a range of important topics to ensure that students are getting comprehensive and medically accurate information about their bodies and their health.“All of our...

By PHIL WILSON

As the pandemic recedes, and leaves U.S. media pundits to survey the wreckage, we are already seeing a myopic, revisionist tendency to circumvent the details. Bob Woodward, appearing recently on Ari Melber’s show, “The Beat” on MSNBC, focused almost...

By CAROLE HOROWITZ

We are discouraged by the failure of the Massachusetts Legislature to limit the use of toxic pesticides in the commonwealth.This May, for the third time in six years, a grassroots coalition of scientists, doctors, wildlife veterinarians, farmers,...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — In the decade since Cooley Dickinson Hospital joined the system of then Massachusetts General Hospital, the partnership has shown its value in an expansion of services and capacity, the provision of expertise and support that helped the...

By BILL NEWMAN

Here we go again. Last June the Supreme Court overruled a half-century of precedent and repealed the right to abortion. This June, the court again jettisoned a half-century of precedent, this time to gut affirmative action.Let’s be clear. This is not...

By MERCY LINGLE

NORTHAMPTON — The Western Massachusetts Policy Center could have been called the “Eastern Massachusetts Policy Center,” or even the “Washington D.C. Policy Center,” but founder and CEO Lauren Rollins chose western Massachusetts as a base location for...

I agree with the June 29 opinion column “Stop double standard; tell truth about Ukraine.” [Recorder, June 9]. I really worry — not so much for myself as for my children and grandchildren — that if we don’t, we’ll sleepwalk toward the ever-increasing...

By JOANNA BUONICONTI

As anyone who lives with a chronic condition knows, a multitude of positive and negative effects come with it. One positive that I’ve discovered — as a necessary result of growing up with my condition — is that I am an avid planner. I take a small...

By SUSAN WOZNIAK

Humans are storytellers. We invented novels and poetry and plays to satisfy our need for stories. The tales we experience stir our emotions, sometimes allowing us to relax and often teaching us what we need to know.As I have been with my grandkids...

On June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee of Virginia presented a resolution to Congress asserting “these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states ...” Sound familiar?Congress — the Second Continental Congress, not the same...

By RICHARD FEIN

Mr. President, I am concerned that you will be a weak candidate in the 2024 presidential election . Your age is a legitimate concern for the American people. At 80, you are already the oldest American president ever, and you would be 86 at the end of...

The recent celebration of Juneteenth made me think about the continuing lack of equity in health care for Black Americans. Black Americans have a higher mortality rate than any other racial or ethnic group.Structural and systemic inequalities rooted...

The recent front-page obituary for Daniel Ellsberg focuses on his release of the Pentagon Papers, and the Defense Department study that revealed that leaders of both parties had lied to the American people about the progress and prospects of the war...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

NORTHAMPTON — On his travels around Northampton, city resident David Edwards sees people he once went to school with or worked alongside whose lives have been upended by poverty, now living on the streets or regularly relying on the help of social...

By ROB OKUN

Women’s activism, including mothers in leadership roles, is legendary. Moms have long employed their moral authority as parents to advance the social good.Where are the fathers and grandfathers? We care about our children and grandchildren, too. As...

By BILL NEWMAN

For me, and probably for you, the bromides began in grade school, and continued after that — the faith our teachers shared in the genius and effectiveness of our governmental system of three co-equal branches — the legislative, executive and...