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The celebration by Gov. Maura Healey and state Sen. Jo Comerford for reprimanding municipalities against controverting the U.S. Constitution by stealing equity in property tax seizures is like commending a thief for agreeing to stop stealing, but not...

By CHRIS MOHN

Due to rising incidents of antisemitism, an amendment to our state budget signed Monday by Gov. Maura Healey Senate will require teaching about antisemitism. The amendment calls for for the creation of a Special Commission on Antisemitism and directs...

We appreciate the article by reporter Chris Larrabee, “Farmers grateful for more typical growing season after 2023 floods devastated fields,” [July 17]. Devastating is a good word for it: River flooding on July 10, 2023 swept away millions of dollars...

Thank you for highlighting (again) the crisis in primary care [”Primary care in crisis,” Gazette, July 27].As the board chair of Mass-Care: The Massachusetts Campaign for Single Payer Health Care, I appreciate being quoted, but I want readers to...

How is it possible that in an article about the lack of primary care in western Massachusetts [“Primary care in crisis: Doctor shortage continues,” July 26], there is not a word concerning the active role of nurse practitioners as providers of...

Why is there such silence? Where is the outrage? When kids in Gaza die in an airstrike, the charges of genocide and murder fill the editorial page. When Hezbollah, which has denied responsibility, targets a soccer field and kills 12 children and teens...

By BRUCE J. STEDMAN

When you hear church bells tolling on the morning of Aug. 6, listen carefully. They have an important message for you.In 1624, English cleric and poet John Donne published a series of poems, including “No Man is an Island.” Donne lived and wrote at a...

What a contrast! Biden, an honorable elder statesman, withdraws from the presidential race for the good of his party and our country. Trump, a self-serving, toddler-politician, lies, threatens, and incites violence to cling to the presidency like a...

In their June 1 decision, the Supreme Court gave Donald Trump and all presidents total immunity from prosecution. In his decision supporting Donald Trump in his appeal about alleged subversion of the 2020 election, Chief Justice Roberts wrote:...

Cherry Hill is a wonderful community golf course with a diverse clientele and a very reasonable membership fee. It’s set on beautiful, tree-lined fairways with awesome views, especially in the fall. It’s a welcoming place not only for golfers, but for...

Donald Trump gets shot and yet Republicans didn’t riot, there were no businesses looted, no fires were set, and Republicans didn’t get a free pass to “blow off steam.” They came together and rallied around him at the convention. What a contrast with...

The Jones Library’s “Plan B” does not have to be — and should not be — one that addresses every deferred maintenance need.All town-owned buildings have millions of dollars worth of needed repairs. Why would a non-town-owned building get everything...

I find it hard to comment evenly about the Trump assassination attempt, because he has demonstrated repeatedly how little sympathy he has for people other than himself, and because he has been just plain nasty and criminal. But this event brings forth...

Another summer, another season of seeking out swimming holes to cool down.In the Pioneer Valley and beyond, millions of Americans are flocking to rivers, lakes and beaches to beat the heat. Whether stream walking, wading, swimming, surfing, tubing,...

By BRIAN COOPER

I quite enjoyed the opening paragraph of Jon Huer’s opinion piece in the Daily Hampshire Gazette predicting that fascism is on our immediate horizon [”On our last Independence Day,” July 1]. Particularly amusing was his humorous and deliberately...

By MATTEO PANGALLO

 It is misleading to assert, as writer Stephen Linsky does in a July 10 letter, that the proposed climate bill “address[es] the siting concerns” of the individuals quoted in the Gazette’s July 6 article [“Energy bill doesn’t address siting fears”]. A...

Biden won the Democratic nomination for president in 2020 because Democrats believed that, among all the candidates running in the primaries, he had the best chance of defeating Donald Trump. This year, Democrats held no meaningful primary elections...

The recent column concerning the Jones Library debate [“Why trustees are seeking to rebid Jones project,” June 21] was very helpful in that it made clear the trustees’ position: It’s not about the building, it’s about our opinion, namely that the...

A recent CNN headline read: “At Least 90 Palestinians reported killed in Israeli strike targeting Hamas military chief.” The news article goes on to say that the site bombed, Al-Mawasi, was “designated as a safe zone for Palestinians fleeing the...

By MICHAEL DOVER

 Presidential “debates” are not debates, they are performances. They say nothing about policies or facts, and little if anything about why one should or shouldn’t vote for the performers. Last week’s debate showed one thing for certain: No one should...