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By TOLLEY M. JONES

“If you think we live in the land of the free, you should try to be black like me.” — Mickey GuytonHave you ever been told as a child you can’t possibly be as smart as you are? Have you ever been accused of cheating because your test scores were...

By BEN GROSSCUP

I agree with the Feb. 23 guest column by Dr. E. Martin Schotz [“Rethinking U.S. interests on anniversary of war in Ukraine”]. The war in Ukraine must end with a cease-fire between the NATO-armed Ukrainian Armed Forces and the Russian Army. Achieving...

Guest columnist Bob Couch [“Where is the wisdom? Much very wrong in ‘Age of Ignorance,’” Gazette, Feb. 27] decries widespread “ignorance” and the “far too many people” in present-day America who are “trying to appear erudite” by lacing their opinions...

‘Our side is the good side, and your side is the bad side.”How amazing the human organism can be. “My side wears blue and yellow.” “Oh yeah, well my side wears black, red, white, and green.” It is often comical to find one’s existence within a nation...

By CHRIS LARABEE

GREENFIELD — School officials and community members from up and down the Pioneer Valley honed in on one of the most important local education issues — rural school funding — during a state budget hearing late last week that also included discussion...

Please join me in voting for Chris Ryan and Sue O’Sullivan for Republican State Committee in the Massachusetts Republican Primary on March 5. Massachusetts has been called a “uni-party” state because most elected Republicans are indistinguishable...

By CHRIS LARABEE

GREENFIELD — With an application coming before the Planning Board next week, Starbucks is brewing up its first Franklin County location.The national coffeehouse chain will come before the Planning Board on March 7 in pursuit of site plan approval to...

In a country with so much wealth, it is immoral that poverty is the fourth leading cause of death. Especially while, for example, our elected officials choose to spend billions of dollars to bail out corrupt bankers and refuse to have Wall Street and...

By TANISHA BHAT

While many communities have made progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, many experts believe the next big step statewide will involve electrifying home heating systems, a process the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection is...

By CHRIS LARABEE

GREENFIELD — With an application coming before the Planning Board next week, Starbucks is brewing up its first Franklin County location.The national coffeehouse chain will come before the Planning Board on March 7 in pursuit of site plan approval to...

By JON HUER

During the holidays, we hear much about giving. A strange thing about giving: We commoners simply “give,” but if a rich man does, it’s called “philanthropy,” literally “love of humanity.” It sounds noble and mysterious, but what really is...

By CHRIS LARABEE

GREENFIELD — With a $125,000 grant from the National Council on Aging, LifePath is looking to help folks in Franklin and Hampshire counties, as well as the North Quabbin region, get past the complex forms and eligibility requirements for numerous...

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

GREENFIELD — The Wright Division title was on the line at Collins-Moylan Arena Saturday night. The Greenfield hockey team entered its final regular season game of the season against Easthampton with a 7-0 record in the division while the Eagles came...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — Some two dozen aspiring nurses spent Monday morning rubbing elbows with four of the region’s top politicians, where they were able to ask what they could do to drum up support for single-payer health care to how to better protect medical...

By AL NORMAN

‘The greatest threat to our national security is our nation’s debt,” said Louisiana Republican Mike Johnson in his first speech in November after being elected speaker of the U.S. House. “Tough decisions will have to be made, but the consequences if...

By TOLLEY M. JONES

The other day I was in my office working on a grant report with my door closed, when suddenly loud and joyous laughter exploded in the hallway. My fellow brown female coworkers were laughing the way brown women laugh when they are surrounded by other...

By DOUG SELWYN

We are now a month away from MCAS season, and I urge readers to learn more about the Thrive Act, which would end the MCAS as a graduation requirement, would end district receivership, and would establish a commission to develop an assessment system...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALLand CHRIS LARABEE

SPRINGFIELD — U.S. Rep. Richard Neal touted a new tax relief bill passed by the House of Representatives this week, and shared his views on U.S. foreign policy during a gathering with the press on Friday morning.Speaking in the atrium inside the...

I thoroughly enjoyed Jack Hornor’s Feb. 1 letter to the editor, “Trump backers aren’t somehow ‘less than.’” It would have been easier for him to simply stay silent, especially in the deep blue valley. In the letter, the writer talks about tolerance...

By DANIEL CANTOR YALOWITZ

“Winning is not everything, it’s the only thing.” — Vince Lombardi (1955)We live in an increasingly ultra-competitive world. In the U.S., our children are trained from an early age not only about determination, discipline, and persistence, but also...