Columnists

The firm's managers and associates joined the swindler's many victims in applauding the 150-year prison term handed to Bernard L. Madoff by a federal judge in New York City on Monday.   Full Story

Of all the historic houses in Berkshire County, the only one in which I feel the presence of non-ghostly inhabitants is the Frelinghuysen Morris   Full Story

We were already in college when my father became the educational consultant for an architect who was designing a new high school.   Full Story

First comes health care. I am an unreconstructed believer in a single-payer, national health care system.   Full Story

PITTSFIELD -- Singer-songwriters launched into orbit by one super-sized hit face a dilemma: When do they put away the song that helped them blast off?   Full Story

Someone told me the other day that we should get a refund on June.   Full Story

Wildlife Biologist Peter Mirick, who has worked for the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife since 1977, has been the down-to-earth editor of Massachusetts Wildlife Magazine since 1981.   Full Story

Three-forty. ... Forty minutes after 3. Twenty till 4.   Full Story

The Republican Party's prospects for achieving resurgent leadership of American political life depends not on a big tent or a kinder gentler tone, but on a proclamation that freedom is found not in bailouts and mandates, but in life, liberty, and property, and the opportunity to freely protect, increase, improve, and share it, according to the natural incentives that people everywhere respond to with great enthusiasm and ingenuity.   Full Story