Letter: Superintendent’s Job Is to Protect Children in the District’s Care
The following letter was sent to Interim School Superintendent Doug Slaughter on September 27, 2023....
LETTERS
Letter: Saulsberry Withdraws From Consideration for School Committee Vacancy
After much consideration, I have withdrawn my name from consideration for the interim school committee...
Letter: An Open Letter To The Amherst, Pelham, And Regional School Committees
Yesterday, Maxine Oland, Ali Wicks-Lim, and M.J. Schwartz spoke with Bill Newman and Buz Eisenberg on the...
Letter: Law Mandates Protection Of Jones Library’s Invaluable Historic Features
The following letter was sent to the Amherst Historical Commission on September 14, 2023 Thank...
Letter: Valuable Historic Assets Are Threatened By The Proposed Demolition Of Portions Of The Jones Library
The following letter was sent to the Amherst Historical Commission, The Massachusetts Historical Commission and...
Letter: They Paved Paradise And Put Up Solar?
I attended the long session on Massachusetts Solar on September 6. Here are some of...
Letter: A Call For Better Communication
I listened to former Amherst Regional School Committee (RSC) Chair, Ben Herrington’s WHMP interview discussing...
Updated Letter: Town Needs To Be More Assertive With UMass To Resolve Student Housing Crisis
The following letter was send to Amherst Town Manager Paul Bockelman, The Amherst Planning Board...
Letter: Vitriol Is Not The Problem
As a thought experiment, I considered how I might react to recent events at the...
Letter: School Committee Members Who Resigned Are Not Victims
In the past week, we have seen three resignations from the Amherst School Committee. In...
Letter: Peter Demling Should Look To Himself For Blame
The Progressive Coalition of Amherst (PCA) rejects recent false assertions that Peter Demling makes in...
Letter: Ignoring The Common Good
Once again, Amherst is in the news for the resignations of town leaders, and once...