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A letter published on Nov. 18 claims that we need to “get this country back on its feet,” and that we have been “the laughing stock of the world with the last administration” [“Election results,” Gazette]. I assume the writer is claiming that people...

The need for affordable housing is urgent. As I drive through South Hadley, I see signs supporting equality and social justice, but none advocating affordable housing — an essential social justice issue.Our country is failing to address housing needs...

Recently, a writer on this page voiced concerns that few townspeople in Amherst know about or understand the current plans to renovate and expand the Jones Library [letter, “Most Amherst residents unaware of library project,” Nov. 14].I have been...

A recent letter writer claims that the U.S. has been “the laughing stock of the world with the last administration” [“Election results,” Gazette, Nov. 18]. What world is he talking about? Which administration? Because if he’s talking about Trump 1.0,...

The Broad Brook Coalition board of directors would like to thank the many firefighters whose quick work helped contain the brush fire that broke out recently in the Fitzgerald Lake Conservation Area. Given the dry weather and warm conditions, this...

Kudos to our mayor, Nicole LaChapelle for her actions regarding the flying of the American flag over Nashawannuk Pond. I've been living in Easthampton for 22 years and seeing the flag flying in such a prominent place every summer has given me a sense...

By HELEN SEIDLER

 Here’s a proposition: Climate is a nonpartisan issue. It was, after all, not on the November 2024 ballot. Instead, climate change was a backdrop to the cultural and political fights playing out on central stage.But as we have seen, climate is...

By JONATHAN KAHANE

 I voted for Kamala Harris in the recent presidential election, and I’m very “disappointed” in the result. I chose that word carefully because it, and not the outcome of the vote per se, is the focus of this essay.From the moment this campaign began...

The firing of Don Brown, a very experienced longtime coach with success in multiple programs, is another excuse by the ongoing failure of the UMass Athletics Department and the board of trustees to promote UMass football into a program that is going...

The initial reasoning behind the placement of the flag at Nashawannuk Pond in Easthampton was due to the thoughtfulness and patriotic sentiment brought on by the horrific devastation of 9/11. This has been going on for 23 years! So it has taken 23...

By MICHAEL CAROLAN

Richard McCarthy’s column “Tortured artists’ deaths no blaze of glory” (Gazette, Nov. 2) concerns the self-destructive lives of two writers, both of whom I taught for a decade at Clark University. Unlike them, I escaped my tortured-artist days, so...

By RICHARD FEIN

Like many of our fellow Americans I am appalled and frightened by the recent election of Donald Trump to be our next president. That said, during the campaign Trump said many times that he wants a number of international conflicts to end. One of these...

The folks of greater Northampton are lucky again to be treated to another season of the Pioneer Valley Ballet’s Nutcracker! Thomas Vacanti and Maryanne Kodzis (with a little help from Lisa Baldyga) have been busy preparing this season’s performances...

For the first time in U.S. history the American electorate has voted into the White House a man who is a well-known and recognized pathological liar. What is a pathological liar? A pathological liar is a person who is governed by impulse and not by...

By MARIEL E. ADDIS

“I drove through the valley in a car with no name ...” I can imagine these lyrics applied to the music from pop rock group America’s famous 1970s hit to describe my recent adventures in my dad’s 1973 Oldsmobile Delta 88.The car, purchased new by my...

I am troubled and irritated by the unending scolding and pontification of pundits against the Democratic Party, and the Harris campaign in particular, for being “elitist” and failing to appeal to the concerns of average working people. I was...

I am writing in response to the guest column “We need to rethink ‘gender care’ for children” [Gazette, Nov. 14] by Karen Bercovici. This is an old and tired argument about trans people, couched in “protecting children,” that I thought we had gotten...

I am writing in response to the Nov. 14 guest column by Karen Bercovici entitled “We need to rethink ‘gender care’ for children.” I have a couple of questions. First, why does the Daily Hampshire Gazette keep printing opinion pieces challenging rights...

By ROB OKUN

Across the country, millions and millions of citizens who supported Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign are no longer walking around in a haze, moving toward the light.Still, there is emotional fallout that needs our attention. Our nerves are frayed;...

By JANINE ROBERTS

There were seven girls ages 9-16 left in the dorm at the American Community School in Beirut, Lebanon, over the Thanksgiving break. It was past nine, our curfew. I peek down the hall, anyone sneaking out of their rooms? What are those sounds coming...