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Thank you to Karen Bercovici for her Nov. 14 guest column outlining the issues with “gender-affirming” care [“We need to rethink ‘gender affirming care’ for our children”]. As the parent of a child who identified as trans for a time and then desisted,...

Karen Bercovici’s guest column, “We need to rethink ‘gender care’ for our children” (Gazette, Nov. 14) is full of debunked arguments. It is based on a recent, discredited UK review of other transgender studies by Dr. Hillary Cass. But Cass’ findings...

I was disappointed to read yet another opinion piece about gender medical care for transgender young people. Nov. 13-19 has been designated Transgender Awareness Week. Rather than affirming transgender adults and children readers were subjected to...

National security is one of the core functions of the president. The president is constitutionally required to protect the United States. According to a recent Supreme Court ruling, a president cannot be prosecuted for any act, legal or otherwise,...

A knock at the door. “Your son has been shot,” the police officer says. The text notification dings. “Your child’s school has been locked down with an active shooter.” Imagine a parent’s feelings upon hearing or seeing these words. Millions of guns...

By DONALD JORALEMON

There is no shortage of post-election speculation about the causes of Kamala Harris’ loss as Democrats wring hands and panic over the future of the party. It is generally an overreaction.Trump’s success was not the landslide he has claimed; many of...

By RAZVAN SIBII

Here’s an incomplete list of the kinds of immigrants that, at some time or the other, the U.S. government has said should not be coming to this country: Syrians, convicted criminals, Chinese, anarchists, Libyans, people who are illiterate, Eastern...

By PATRICK J. CAHILLANE

 Standing in the Great Hall of Flags at the State House last Monday, Gov. Maura Healey opened her Veterans Day Ceremony remarks by stating that “Every day should be Veterans Day.”Our governor’s comment struck a deep chord with me. Feeling humbled for...

By KURT HEIDINGER

 The postmortem has arrived, concluding voters elected Donald Trump because of “the economy.” After campaigning against him with the red alert message that he is a fascist, Kamala Harris lost all seven swing states. The “economy” message, not the...

By SARA WEINBERGER

Vice President Kamala Harris had to get her message out and make herself known to voters in record time. Her difficulty differentiating herself from Biden cost her.For some, she talked about herself too much and not enough about her policies. For...

The election is over and a winner has been declared. If your choice wasn’t the winner, so sorry, if your choice was, congratulations!Now it’s time to stop crying in your beer about all the “what ifs” and work together to get this country back on its...

I was interested to see that UMass is apparently planning to build an expanded child care facility [“Child care lack leaves hundreds waiting on list,” Gazette, Nov. 9]. I question if the plans are “expansive” enough.It is distressing that UMass finds...

By THE REV. ANDREA AYVAZIAN

If part of your post-election self-care regime is to stop reading commentary about the election, I invite you to stop reading this column now. And I support your decision to do so. For the rest of you diehards, some thoughts from this tired and...

By ANNA GYORGY

 At a time of a both extensive and costly “overhaul” of U.S. nuclear weapons, and increased dangers of the use of atomic weaponry, area activists welcome the announcement of Nihon Hidankyo as winner of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize.The name of this...

By MARIETTA PRITCHARD

 Among the frightening campaign promises/threats issued by our new president was the prospect of mass deportations beginning with a form of concentration camp where the deportees would be assembled.This would be one of the key actions that would...

By RUSS VERNON-JONES

The election of Donald Trump is catastrophic in so many ways. It will mean untold suffering for many people and for our country as a whole. It also will be disastrous for the global climate crisis.We are at a moment in history when the entire world...

By KAREN BERCOVICI

 How a society treats its children and youth reveals much about its values. Are the educators, the politicians, the news media and the health care industry truly putting our kids’ welfare first? Or are they promoting a harmful ideology, the...

Last week myself and three others spent several hours over the course of four days on the street in downtown Amherst gathering signatures on a petition to stop the demolition and expansion of the Jones Library. We had many interesting and in-depth...

I understand that Hulk Hogan is to be named secretary of state. I protested the election by hanging an American flag upside down on my garage. This is a symbol of protest dating to the Vietnam War. My adult son stopped by and said, “Hi Pop, what’s...

I found it ironic that on his way out the door, longtime Gazette columnist John Shreirer bemoaned that he wasn’t able to convince the “cultists” not to vote for Trump [“I’m Done,” Nov. 11]. For the past eight years or so, the writer has consistently...