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Guest columnist Rutherford H. Platt: Church purchase a major blunder
09-19-2024 7:00 AM

By RUTHERFORD H. PLATT

Northampton’s purchase of the old First Baptist Church in June 2023 for $3.175 million, twice its market value at the time according to a privately funded independent reappraisal, was a huge blunder. The concept of a “resilience hub” as a day drop-in...

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Guest columnist Rutherford H. Platt: Reasons to question ‘trophy projects’
01-26-2024 7:01 PM

By RUTHERFORD H. PLATT

On Jan. 5, 2023, the Northampton City Council celebrated the new year by allocating $1 million to each of Mayor Gina-Louise Sciarra’s two trophy projects: “Picture Main Street” and the Resilience Hub. These amounts were drawn from the COVID-era...


Guest columnist Rutherford H. Platt: Planning urban vibrancy — An oxymoron
10-17-2023 6:32 PM

By RUTHERFORD H. PLATT

The idealized future Main Street visualized in the city’s computer images will not magically just happen. How will the city and state manage years of construction impacts on traffic congestion, on downtown businesses, on emergency vehicle access, on...


Guest columnist Rutherford H. Platt: Is Main Street really dangerous? 
08-10-2023 2:20 PM

By RUTHERFORD H. PLATT

As a 50-year subscriber and occasional contributor, I am one of the Gazette’s most loyal fans. However, I was underwhelmed by the July 22 front-page story “Watch Out for Cars” that seems to bend over backwards to try to portray our treasured...


Guest columnist Rutherford H. Platt: Antarctic Sea ice — going, going ...
03-22-2023 5:11 PM

By RUTHERFORD H. PLATT

Amid the deluge of political, war, and economic news, a new report from Antarctica caught my attention: Floating pack ice surrounding the frozen continent has shrunk to the smallest extent since monitoring by satellite began in 1979.As reported in The...

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