| | | Clarence Fanto: High hopes for the new BSO directorThe selection of a dynamic, still youthful but already widely experienced conductor as the Boston Symphony's next music director has major, positive implications not only for the orchestra but also for its annual summer residency at Tanglewood. Full Story Clarence Fanto: Health care law overhaul concerns are plentifulIt may be that Capitol Hill Republicans will continue to block the three major goals of President Obama's second term -- common sense gun laws, immigration reform and the ever-elusive "grand bargain" to reduce the nation's $16 trillion national debt while preserving safety-net social programs. Full Story Clarence Fanto: A week of pride, chaos and disgustShame and pride. What a cascade of emotions as a chaotic week ended on Friday with the astonishing, melodramatic, violent, almost unbelievable climax of the manhunt for the Boston Marathon bombers accompanied by the lockdown of Boston and its western suburbs. Full Story Clarence Fanto: A rock and a hard place in Egremont"The town faces difficult choices ahead." That's the succinct conclusion of a management study commissioned by the town of Egremont to examine the dysfunctional police department top to bottom, inside and out. Difficult? How about nearly impossible. Full Story | |
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