OPINION
Opinion: Charter Review Committee Should Listen to What the Public Has Already Said
Amherst’s charter review committee has been meeting since September 2024 and has dedicated most of...
Opinion: Town Budget Should Prioritize Our Children
Elementary school should not feel like a job, but this is what it looks like...
Opinion: Stop the Billionaire Heist
Love, Justice, and Climate Change There are many ways to describe and to analyze what...
Opinion: Is the Fix in on the Once-in-a-Decade Charter Review?
We know many of the concerns of Amherst voters regarding the Amherst Home Rule Charter...
Anti-DEI Guidance from Trump Administration Misinterprets the Law and Guts Educators’ Free Speech Rights
by Paul M. Collins Jr., UMass Amherst and Rebecca Hamlin, UMass Amherst The Trump administration’s...
Opinion: Democracy in Amherst
The following column, “Democracy in Amherst” by Michael Greenebaum, appeared originally in the Indy on...
Opinion: Will We Stop the Coup?
Love, Justice, and Climate Change There is a coup underway in our country. We are...
Opinion: 2024 – A Year of Climate Wakeup Calls
Local and Green The following column appeared previously in the Amherst Bulletin. I am not...
Opinion: Resisting the MAGA/Musk Agenda
Love, Justice and Climate Change Many of us wondered what Donald Trump’s first weeks in...
Opinion: Preserve and Enhance DEI in Amherst
Diversity, equity and inclusion are bedrocks of American democracy but not, sadly, of American history. ...
Opinion: The People’s March and MLK Jr.
Love, Justice and Climate Change This past weekend I went to Washington, DC to be...