Editorials

Referendum push isn't grassroots
Thursday February 9, 2012

The term "grassroots" by definition refers to something that is native to the soil. A grassroots political movement, by extension, can't be dropped out of the sky, it has to evolve from the ground up. This is all by way of prologue to the latest example of Massachusetts' mess of a ballot referendum system. Full Story

Taking on Alzheimer's
Wednesday February 8, 2012 Alzheimer's disease is not only punishing for the victim and the family, its demographics in an aging society Full Story

Church isn't victim here
Tuesday February 7, 2012 In its opposition to a mandate from the Obama administration’s Department of Health and Human Services related to Full Story

Insider bill may make it outside
Monday February 6, 2012 Who says Congress can’t pass anything into law, especially in an election year? Full Story

Super Bowl Sunday: An All-American holiday
Sunday February 5, 2012 As was the case IV years ago, today’s Super Bowl has a particular resonance for Berkshire County fans. Full Story

Komen ploy backfires
Saturday February 4, 2012 The decision Friday by the Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast-cancer charity to abandon its plans to deny funding to Full Story

Tough squeeze in SBRSD
Friday February 3, 2012

When all five member towns of the Southern Berkshire Regional School District did not sign off on a $3 million bond last May that would have funded $1.4 million in upgrades at three outlying schools, administrators were destined to face some difficult decisions. Full Story

Overkill on DNA samples
Wednesday February 1, 2012

When someone has served their debt to society for a criminal conviction he or she has the right to believe the matter has been resolved.  Full Story

Promising turf field idea
Tuesday January 31, 2012 While only in its early stages, the proposal to install a multi-use, artificial-turf field at Berkshire Community Full Story

Questions remain on DPH action
Monday January 30, 2012

The Department of Public Health in Massachusetts is admirably aggressive in protecting the interests of residents, but its brief ban on the milk sales of Twin Rivers Farm in Sheffield appears to have been an instance in which that aggressiveness backfired. Full Story

Last days of JFK
Sunday January 29, 2012 To millions of young Americans, President John F. Full Story

Daylight for utility bill
Friday January 27, 2012

Legislation enabling Massachusetts communities to start their own small utilities made it out of committee this week in Boston, and while its fate is uncertain an issue that has been kicking around the Statehouse off and on for a decade should at least get a thorough airing.  Full Story

 
 
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