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Editorial: Recycling’s durable value

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

About the same time that the American Lung Association was giving Western Massachusetts its annual poor grades for ozone pollution, news reports surfaced of Gov. Deval Patrick’s decision to lift a 23-year-old moratorium on new waste incinerators to allow gasification waste disposal plants. Traditional incinerators are still banned. Patrick and his advisers argue that allowing gasification plants will promote and encourage more advanced waste-disposal technologies. The amount of waste is … 0

Donald Robinson: Facing up to climate change

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

ASHFIELD — Lately there has been a terrible hubbub emanating from Washington. Begging pardon, I would like to change the subject. I realize that, in asking that we pay attention to climate change, I am forcing an issue that appears as number 21 on the public’s list of “top priorities” for the president and Congress to address, according to a recent poll by … 1

Kipp Armstrong & Susannah Howe: Don’t blame public education troubles on charter schools

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

NORTHAMPTON — We respectfully disagree with the sentiments offered by Deborah Keisch Polin and Tim Scott in their guest column Friday. Our largest frustration rests with their misrepresentation of the finances involved in funding charters. The formula is as follows: Charter schools receive directly from the state the average amount the sending district is spending on a child in the district, adjusted to … 1

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Larry Parnass, the editor of the Gazette, has been on the newspaper's staff since 1988 as an editor, reporter and columnist.

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