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Guest columnist Darcy Dumont: A year of climate wake-up calls
02-09-2025 11:02 AM

By DARCY DUMONT

 

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Judson Brown: Musk and his ‘criminal enterprise’
02-09-2025 10:59 AM

If we were living in an era when newspapers had sufficient resources and considerable clout, every paper in the country this week would be running a banner headline in bold: “EXTRA! EXTRA! BILLIONAIRE MUSK STAGES COUP.”


Norbert Salz: Trump-Musk blitzkrieg
02-09-2025 10:59 AM

We are experiencing a coup nominally led by Donald Trump, but I am especially alarmed by Elon Musk’s operational takeover of government operations. He has your and my Social Security numbers. He has our bank account information. I rely on Social Security income to support myself and now find I may be at the mercy of whatever decisions Musk and his minions (possibly including Trump?) may make.


Guest columnist Denise Lello: Moving toward an all-electric future
02-07-2025 1:32 PM

By DENISE LELLO

 


Columnist Bill Newman: How Trump is going for the total power grab
02-07-2025 1:31 PM

By BILL NEWMAN


Lilly Gaev: Punishing Main Street
02-07-2025 1:26 PM

Running errands downtown in the bleakness of last Friday’s rain really drove home to me both the potential flooding crisis from known-to-be insufficient storm pipe sizing; and the absurdity of thinking that our little town of already half-empty storefronts could economically survive the Picture Main Street project.


Guest column: UMass protest response review was just a whitewash
02-06-2025 4:36 PM

By KEVIN A. YOUNG

 


Guest columnist Al Norman: Shutesbury and Wendell appeal seizure of our home rule
02-06-2025 4:34 PM

By AL NORMAN

 


John Sinton: Recognize propaganda, confront the lies
02-06-2025 4:34 PM

I want to thank the Gazette for publishing Trumpist screeds like “Let’s leave Age of Ignorance behind” [Guest column, Jan. 29], because we must recognize that propagandized neighbors live among us, filled with anger and recrimination.


Guest columnist Benjamin Weil: Fossil fuel-free law addresses legit concerns
02-06-2025 11:02 AM

By BENJAMIN WEIL

In his guest column Jan. 30 [“All-electric rule: Costlier homes, worse efficiency”], David Murphy poses several objections to Northampton’s fossil fuel-free construction ordinance. In fact, all of the points that he makes in the column were made by him or by other members of the public at both the Jan. 16 City Council meeting and at the Legislative Matters Committee meeting on Jan. 6.


Betsy Powell: Democratic leaders must stand up now for our government
02-05-2025 10:38 PM

For leaders of the Democratic Party, it’s time to take action now to stand up to the Trump administration’s illegal activities in terms of our system of governance.


Scott Barton: Trying to throw kindness off a cliff
02-05-2025 10:38 PM

In many churches this past Sunday, people heard Luke’s story where Jesus walks into his hometown synagogue and is handed the Isaiah scroll, from which he read about good news to the poor, prisoners, blind and oppressed. Everybody was impressed because he had made headlines in a neighboring town, and they wanted the same action for themselves.


Martin Konowitch: When should I worry and what can I do?
02-05-2025 10:38 PM

The current leader is a convicted felon, ultranationalist, anti-communist and anti-foreign, and is ultra pro-business. The current leader wants laws that bypass the Constitution. The current leader encouraged violence to get his way. The current leader believes in spreading lies and hate. The current leader wants to take over other nations.


Sidney Moss: We all need to work together for a safer world
02-05-2025 10:38 PM

After reading the article about the Doomsday Clock [“Scientists: Eighty-nine seconds to midnight,” Gazette, Jan. 30], I felt deeply discouraged.


Nancy Flickinger: Shoveling law unenforced
02-05-2025 10:38 PM

I am a walker, every day on Crescent, Franklin and Elm streets. On Feb. 3, I counted eight sidewalks that had not been shoveled — and this is not the first time. When is the city going to enforce the ordinance to keep these walkways safe? Or, do I need to break a leg first?


Walter Krzeminski: The many teams of Rose Jr., Mahomes Sr.
02-05-2025 10:38 PM

With the recent death of Pete Rose and the ongoing success of Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, a unique list that Pete’s son and Pat’s father are at the top of deserves mention. Pete Jr. and Pat Sr. both played on 25 professional baseball teams. The only players ahead of them on this unique list are Bill Sisler, 41 teams, Bruce Chen, 30 teams, Mike Hickey (Chicopee, MA, Holy Cross) 28 teams, and Octave Dotel, 27 teams.


Columnist J.M. Sorrell: Strategic scapegoating
02-04-2025 5:04 PM

By J.M. SORRELL

When saving face is a primary operating mode and when people denigrate others to justify their own harm or inertia, mistrust and chaos ensue.


Jeff Clark: Get ready for the clean energy future
02-04-2025 5:01 PM

I beg to differ on a few points in the Jan. 30 guest column ”Just not ready for clean energy future” by Stephen Fox. First, Gov. Maura Maura Healey and the Legislature are quite aware of the concerns he lays out and are addressing the challenges of climate changes. They are putting policies in place to get us to net zero (i.e., not producing more carbon than the environment can sequester) by 2050.


Ellen Nigrosh: Supporting Laurie Loisel for Ward 3
02-04-2025 5:01 PM

I am writing to enthusiastically endorse Laurie Loisel in her recently announced candidacy for City Council, Ward 3.


Larry Cervelli: Time for Supreme Court action
02-04-2025 5:01 PM

The Supreme Court created an individual, who by virtue of his elected office, can now consider his actions above the law that governs our rules and norms. The court expected possible exceptions to be judged by the court. Tradition says others should bring those cases to the court.


David Schmidt: Yes, you are missing something
02-04-2025 5:01 PM

In David Murphy’s Jan. 31 guest column ”All-electric rule: Costlier homes, worse efficiency” he erroneously calculates the overall efficiency of heating a home with electricity from the grid and compares it to the efficiency of the natural gas furnace in his basement. He concludes that Ordinance 24.170 would force homeowners to rely on electric heating that is 60% efficient rather than a home furnace that is roughly 90% efficient. He asks, “Am I missing something?” The answer is a definitive “Yes.”

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