https://www.recorder.com/SpecialPages/RSS?feed=Opinion RSS Feed for most recent Greenfield Recorder articles en https://www.recorder.com/Columnist-Bos-58368772 Dear Readers and Friends,This is my last “Connecting the Dots” column. My time has come. It’s kind of a life review time. I am surrounded and supported by my family and an old friend of 60-plus years. Also, I feel support from members of my writing... By JOHN BOS Fri, 13 Dec 2024 14:44:00 -0500 Opinion Opinion Greenfield MA facebook https://www.recorder.com/Columnist-Bos-58368772 https://www.recorder.com/Letter-to-the-editor-58436605 On Tuesday, Nihon Hidankyo, an association of survivors of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, became the fourth organization to win the Nobel Peace Prize for work advocating the abolition of nuclear weapons.In accepting the award, Terumi Tanaka... Fri, 13 Dec 2024 13:23:53 -0500 Opinion Opinion Leeds MA https://www.recorder.com/Letter-to-the-editor-58436605 https://www.recorder.com/Letter-to-the-editor-58432333 The city of Greenfield has hired its third finance director this year. Consistent with my Oct. 22, 2024, letter to the dditor, the high turnover in the first year of Mayor Virginia Desorgher’s administration, especially the continued turnover in the... Fri, 13 Dec 2024 13:23:53 -0500 Opinion Opinion Greenfield MA https://www.recorder.com/Letter-to-the-editor-58432333 https://www.recorder.com/Guest-columnist-Larkin-58436031 Imagine walking into an emergency room in the middle of a mental health crisis, only to be told you’ll have to wait —possibly for days or even weeks — before receiving the care you need. This is happening every day in Massachusetts. The mental health... By AVA LARKIN Fri, 13 Dec 2024 13:21:33 -0500 Opinion Opinion holyoke ma https://www.recorder.com/Guest-columnist-Larkin-58436031 https://www.recorder.com/Columnist-Huer-58405755 In 1814, Napoleon escaped from the island of Alba where he had been exiled after the disastrous Russian campaign. The newspapers in Paris reported: “Devil escapes from Alba.” Upon the news of his escape, many former French soldiers joined him in his... By JON HUER Thu, 12 Dec 2024 16:04:36 -0500 Opinion Opinion Greenfield MA https://www.recorder.com/Columnist-Huer-58405755 https://www.recorder.com/Letter-to-the-editor-58422824 Now that Vice President Kamala Harris will never be President Harris, she should do America a favor and become a recluse so we won’t have to hear that cackle ever again.Honestly, this woman has been bizarre from the get-go. She’s never made any sense... By SHERRY COWDREY Thu, 12 Dec 2024 16:01:37 -0500 Opinion Opinion SHELBURNE FALLS MA https://www.recorder.com/Letter-to-the-editor-58422824 https://www.recorder.com/Letter-to-the-editor-58419017 Northfield isn’t called Northfield for nothing. Northfield was named for its fertile ancestral fields that have been cultivated for centuries.Farms, food and forests are in critical danger in western Massachusetts. Our beautiful flat fields are a... Thu, 12 Dec 2024 15:59:43 -0500 Opinion Opinion NORTHFIELD MA https://www.recorder.com/Letter-to-the-editor-58419017 https://www.recorder.com/Letter-to-the-editor-58413031 The recent election by plurality, not majority, of Donald Trump to a second term is indeed a reality, albeit a sad one. It boggles the mind that people such a recent letter writer could feel that the Biden-Harris administration “has plunged our nation... Thu, 12 Dec 2024 15:59:40 -0500 Opinion Opinion Charlemont Ma https://www.recorder.com/Letter-to-the-editor-58413031 https://www.recorder.com/Guest-columnist-Lake-58405412 After spending too much money and too many hours on the campaign, I felt stunned at the outcome. But as I thought more, I realized that the outcome had really been decades in the making and all the “inside baseball” Democratic commentary about the... By KEVIN LAKE Wed, 11 Dec 2024 21:56:49 -0500 Opinion Opinion Northampton MA https://www.recorder.com/Guest-columnist-Lake-58405412 https://www.recorder.com/Letter-to-the-editor-58401147 Thank you for your Nov. 26 article, “Legislation takes aim at pancreatic cancer.”I was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in September of 2023. I was told if I didn’t have chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery ASAP I would be dead in six months. I was... Wed, 11 Dec 2024 21:55:24 -0500 Opinion Opinion leverett MA https://www.recorder.com/Letter-to-the-editor-58401147 https://www.recorder.com/LtrCollins-58401272 A collective noun is that fun aspect of grammar which denotes groups of animals, people and things. Perhaps you’ve heard of a gaggle of geese, a parliament of owls or a convocation of eagles.I have created collective nouns for people in professions... Wed, 11 Dec 2024 21:55:24 -0500 Opinion Opinion Greenfield MA https://www.recorder.com/LtrCollins-58401272 https://www.recorder.com/Letter-to-the-editor-58401648 As a UMass alum, longtime basketball fan, and human being, I am appalled by the behavior of the UMass basketball coach, Frank Martin. His screaming in the face of his players in front of an arena full of fans is nothing less than abuse, not to mention... Wed, 11 Dec 2024 21:55:23 -0500 Opinion Opinion Pelham MA https://www.recorder.com/Letter-to-the-editor-58401648 https://www.recorder.com/My-Turn-Spencer-58380129 The colonists had not been long in New England before they noticed that there were tall conifers rising above all others as groups or groves of column-like trees. When word got back to England concerning these majestic trees, they soon became the... By BRUCE SPENCER Tue, 10 Dec 2024 15:32:18 -0500 Opinion Opinion new salem ma facebook https://www.recorder.com/My-Turn-Spencer-58380129 https://www.recorder.com/My-Turn-Guimond-58381252 At the Constitutional Convention (May - September 1787), Benjamin Franklin made the following comment: “The first man we put at the helm, will be a good one. Nobody knows what sort may come after.” I seriously doubt that the founding fathers could... By PAUL GUIMOND / Paul Guimond lives in Royalston. Tue, 10 Dec 2024 15:30:06 -0500 Opinion Opinion Royalston MA https://www.recorder.com/My-Turn-Guimond-58381252 https://www.recorder.com/Letter-to-the-editor-58379831 Let me continue highlighting the hypocrisy of our state and local government. No, I am not writing about our governor protecting people who crossed our border illegally who committed felonies from deportation.As many residents of Franklin County are... Tue, 10 Dec 2024 15:28:14 -0500 Opinion Opinion Gill Ma https://www.recorder.com/Letter-to-the-editor-58379831 https://www.recorder.com/Letter-to-the-editor-58324016 Sending out a thank you to all the crew of the Shelburne town Highway Department who worked so hard to plow and sand our roads after our first snowfall. They are a small, hard-working group who did an amazing job cleaning the roads in preparation for... Tue, 10 Dec 2024 15:28:13 -0500 Opinion Opinion Shelburne Ma https://www.recorder.com/Letter-to-the-editor-58324016 https://www.recorder.com/Letter-to-the-editor-58378906 Next time Veterans Day comes around think of the 2,000 or so of us Marines who’ve been waiting three or more years for compensation from cancer from the drinking water at Camp Lejeune North Carolina.What a rotten way to treat us after we put our lives... Tue, 10 Dec 2024 15:28:10 -0500 Opinion Opinion South Deerfield MA https://www.recorder.com/Letter-to-the-editor-58378906 https://www.recorder.com/Letter-to-the-editor-58378847 If this is Donald Trump’s America, I want more of it. After years of doom and gloom politics and being shamed, for wrong think, we now have a reason to celebrate. MAGA is unapologetically alive, well and celebrating. The Trump dance has popped up... Tue, 10 Dec 2024 15:28:10 -0500 Opinion Opinion Greenfield MA https://www.recorder.com/Letter-to-the-editor-58378847 https://www.recorder.com/Letter-to-the-editor-58381830 Regarding the letter “Tragedy of Palestine still being written,” [Recorder, Dec. 2], the writer implies Zionists wanted “to plant the Western flag in the oil and gas rich Arab world.” Well Israel has no oil, but please don’t let facts get in the way... Tue, 10 Dec 2024 15:28:09 -0500 Opinion Opinion Greenfield MA https://www.recorder.com/Letter-to-the-editor-58381830 https://www.recorder.com/My-Turn-Geist-58367067 So, we have a once and future president who is an adjudicated criminal and sexual predator, was impeached twice during his first term, cannot tell truth from fiction — like many of his followers — and is incapable of governing competently and... By KATHE GEIST Mon, 9 Dec 2024 14:08:07 -0500 Opinion Opinion Charlemont Ma https://www.recorder.com/My-Turn-Geist-58367067 https://www.recorder.com/MyTurnMeyer-58038556 On Oct. 10, Tim Jones, acting director of the state Department of Environmental Protection’s Division of Waterways and Wetlands, presided over an “information” session in Turners Falls to field a skeptical public’s questions about its 401 Water... By KARL MEYER Mon, 9 Dec 2024 14:08:06 -0500 Opinion Opinion Greenfield MA https://www.recorder.com/MyTurnMeyer-58038556 https://www.recorder.com/Letter-to-the-editor-58320834 I am wondering what the families of the more than 7 million people who have died from COVID as of April 2024 think about the notion that COVID was/is a hoax, and wondering why people think that, and wondering who they think benefits from promoting... Mon, 9 Dec 2024 14:06:20 -0500 Opinion Opinion Gill Ma https://www.recorder.com/Letter-to-the-editor-58320834 https://www.recorder.com/Letter-to-the-editor-58367395 I’ve just read “Law looks to minimize land use concerns,” (Recorder, Dec. 7) and was reminded of our next Enviro Show Quote of the Week by John Paul II: “The Earth will not continue to offer its harvest, except with faithful stewardship. We cannot say... Mon, 9 Dec 2024 14:06:20 -0500 Opinion Opinion Florence MA https://www.recorder.com/Letter-to-the-editor-58367395 https://www.recorder.com/Letter-to-the-editor-58341536 I am very upset that the state’s Healthy Incentives Program was cut dramatically. The program has been extremely successful in helping hungry people get healthy fresh produce and at the same time benefiting small farmers.News about the large increase... Mon, 9 Dec 2024 14:06:19 -0500 Opinion Opinion Amherst MA https://www.recorder.com/Letter-to-the-editor-58341536 https://www.recorder.com/Columnist-Cantor-Yalowitz-58326163 Upheaval. Chaos, confusion. Radical change. The “New World Order.” The “new normal? However we frame it, we are in turbulent times — and are headed for more of the same.Do we need to adjust to it? Or do we make the changes needed to maintain our... By DANIEL CANTOR YALOWITZ Sun, 8 Dec 2024 18:13:42 -0500 Opinion Opinion Greenfield MA https://www.recorder.com/Columnist-Cantor-Yalowitz-58326163