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By CARRIE N. BAKER

Over 60 percent of Americans support abortion rights, but last year Roe was overturned and 14 states now ban abortions in most circumstances. A president who lost the popular vote by millions appointed three staunch opponents of abortion to the...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Sonya Epstein was crystal clear before a Hampshire District Court judge Thursday afternoon when explaining why she took part in a protest outside the Northampton facility of defense contractor L3Harris that led to her arrest two months...

What with global warming, it seems unlikely that hell will freeze over anytime soon. But the Department of Public Utilities (DPU) order last week that Massachusetts move away from fossil gas makes one wonder! [“State to curtail natural gas expansion,”...

Nearly 40 years ago, I entered a college classroom as the instructor for the first time. I was a 23-year-old graduate teaching assistant, charged with my very own section of English composition. Twenty-five students silently inspected me as I placed...

By JAMES PENTLAND

NORTHAMPTON — Continuing their high-profile involvement in state Republican politics, city physician Jay Fleitman and his wife, Mary Lou Stuart, are heading up the Ron DeSantis presidential campaign for Massachusetts.The two have co-chaired the...

By JOANNA BUONICONTI

As everyone knows, the Christmas season can be perpetually chaotic and stressful. Between shopping, get-togethers with family and friends, cooking, baking and putting up decorations, it’s a holiday that brings out the perfectionists in all of us....

By DICK EVANS

Today, Dec. 5, 2023, is the 90th anniversary of a remarkable — and rarely remarked upon — episode in American history, having enormous consequences in law, in commerce, in families and in culture. More remarkable was its path, perhaps the best-kept...

Two events occurred this past week that reminded me of where I was when they happened.Nov. 22, 1963, the day JFK was assassinated, my husband Jim and I were in Lugano, working at the American School in Switzerland. It was already evening there when we...

By BILL NEWMAN

In November, the United States Supreme Court adopted a Code of Conduct. It’s a list of suggested, not required, ethical dos and don’ts for the Justices.The justices issued this document because they want the klieg lights that the news media has been...

By MADDIE FABIAN

NORTHAMPTON — This year was a tough run for Massachusetts farmers, with more than $42 million and 13,000 acres of crop losses reported due to extreme weather during the spring and summer.Despite the Feb. 4 freeze, May 18 frost and July 10 flooding...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

NORTHAMPTON — A treaty to eliminate nuclear weapons and ban anything associated with their development and manufacture has been ratified by 69 countries, with an additional 28 countries in the process of ratification, since the international agreement...

This November, the Fifth National Climate Assessment, a congressionally mandated report, came out and warned that even as climate pollution is decreasing, heat-trapping emissions are not falling as rapidly as they need to to effectively mitigate the...

By CHRIS MATERA

Can we try to be honest with ourselves? Most scientists say we currently live in the middle of growing climate and biodiversity calamities.Massachusetts has an excellent opportunity to help mitigate these existential threats by ending the senseless...

By CARRIE N. BAKER and MAX FALLON-GOODWIN

‘They stripped me down, they cut my hair off, they poured the liquid in my hair and told me to go to the showers,” testified 72-year-old Dora Brought Plenty about when she first entered the Indian boarding school where she spent her childhood...

By DOMENIC POLI

Don’t worry, radio personality Christopher “Monte” Belmonte will still push a shopping cart 43 miles from Springfield to Greenfield to raise money to combat food insecurity. The journey will simply have a different name.This year marks the first March...

By CHRIS LARABEE

With towns across Massachusetts suffering millions of dollars worth of damages due to torrential rainstorms throughout the summer, local legislators Rep. Natalie Blais and Sen. Jo Comerford have introduced legislation that could take some of the...

By BILL NEWMAN

When the sun rose over the Capitol on Oct. 25, 2023, Mike Johnson was a backbencher, an unknown-to-most-people congressman from Louisiana. By that afternoon, he was the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.Since then, many of us have been...

Brava to Climate Chief Melissa Hoffer, for telling Massachusetts to put its money where its mouth is on climate in a new report [“Climate chief offers call for change,” Recorder, Oct. 30]. Not so much, sadly, to Governor Maura Healey, for sitting on...

By JOANNA BUONICONTI

‘You’ve got a match!” My phone makes that familiar chime; the one that never fails to immediately interrupt my train of thought as I sit at my desk typing away, stating that a new match — for the sake of this column we’ll call him J — has messaged me....

By CHRIS LARABEE

WHATELY — A few months after opening and with business booming, the existing Happy Feelings dispensary brand is going up in smoke on Nov. 11, with two familiar faces becoming the face of the company’s three stores.Next weekend, Happy Feelings stores...