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In Florida, it is common for developers to plan and build entire new communities. A few political favors are done, a new exit ramp springs off the closest highway, and regulatory concerns are bulldozed along with the land.Within the span of a few...

Don’t allow the U.S. government to bargain away the internationally recognized right to seek asylum! In order to get a supplementary emergency funding bill passed to send military aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, the Biden administration and some...

I have long been an admirer of Randy Kehler’s courageous life choices. If you don’t know anything of Randy’s committed life, simply look him up.However, I am troubled by his perplexing stand against that wondrous landscape innovation — the gas leaf...

When I read the article, “Couple co-chairs DeSantis campaign,” [Gazette, Dec. 7] I thought at first it was a parody. Jay Fleitman called DeSantis “principled, effective [and] incredibly intelligent” and claimed that DeSantis is a “nice guy — someone...

We are writing to express our gratitude to Deerfield Academy for their exceptional work in renovating the Valiton and Jack Zabek fields this past month. The members of the Frontier Regional baseball and softball programs are incredibly thankful for...

MassWildlife’s Hunters Share the Harvest Program is a generous and practical effort to distribute venison to food pantries and other hunger relief agencies. Over 1,500 organic protein meals were donated to needy families in its pilot year of 2022....

Since World War II, the United States and allied countries have developed and implemented a “rules-based international order” in the world, which has kept world civilization safe from destruction.But the world order is now being threatened by Xi...

While the Youth Center on Washington Street has closed, a truck still arrives there at 4 a.m. every Tuesday to lift and tip the padlocked and presumably empty dumpster and wake the surrounding neighborhood. Perhaps someone in authority could suspend...

Baystate Health refuses to accept cash. According to their customer service reps, beginning in October 2023, this institution adopted a policy of no longer accepting U.S. currency for payments on co-pays, bills or even in their on-site cafeterias.My...

Congratulations to the Select Board of Deerfield. Because you can’t pass a vote you find a way to bully the elderly of the town of Deerfield by making them clean the sidewalks in front of their property.There are very few roads in Deerfield with...

Why should the 99% of Massachusetts residents who do not hunt have to give up our last bastion of weapons-free rural recreation from October through December? Hunting and gun enthusiasts cite the archaic origins of the Sunday ban as a reason for...

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,”...

A pair of columns in the Recorder’s Dec. 9 edition packed some courageous stuff. John Bos’ column used a poem by Jane Hirshfield, and Wen Stephenson’s response to it, to question the value of hope compared with despair in responding to climate woes....

I have been involved in artificial intelligence since its earliest days, having been Marvin Minsky’s first doctoral student at MIT.Until AI can do air traffic control and take good care of patients in nursing homes, it will not replace people.Paul...

Carl Doerner’s recent column [“History happening behind the scenes,” Recorder, Nov. 27] along with recent critiques of Henry Kissinger’s reign, recalls the days of what Bill Moyers called “the secret government,” when a coup d’etat, as the Kennedy...

On Dec. 5 and Dec. 7, the Recorder reported two Open Meeting Law complaints in Greenfield.Regarding a complaint against the Board of Health, the Recorder reports that Mayor Roxann Wedegartner said the city’s attorney, Jesse Belcher-Timme, plans to...

Bishop William Byrne’s Dec. 6 guest column “A message of welcome to the LGBTQ+ community” is disingenuous in the extreme. He and a group called Catholics for Inclusion have met “to discuss how the Catholic churches in our area can become genuinely...

Having been a vegetarian for nearly 50 years, I certainly share many of the sentiments of the Animal Liberation Front that allegedly released birds from the Fullflight Game Farm with an act of vandalism as reported by the Recorder recently [“Animal...

On Wednesday, speaking from the White House, President Joe Biden said “Make no mistake: Today’s vote is going to be long remembered, and history is going to judge harshly those who turned their backs on freedom’s cause. And now they’re (Republicans)...

I’m writing this letter in praise of our local hospital, Baystate Franklin Medical Center. I went to the Emergency Room at 6:30 a.m. of Nov. 22. After several days of feeling horrible, I had no choice but to give in.From the front desk receptionist,...