OPINION
Opinion: Remembering Marty Nathan
Activist and Indy columnist Marty Nathan passed away on November 29, 2021. Her friends, colleagues,...
Opinion: Spice Up Your Talking About Climate – A Number For Each Day Of The Week
Some years ago I did a fair bit of reading and watching of documentary videos...
Opinion: Elementary School Building Project Moves Forward
by Allison McDonald and Cathy Schoen Since Amherst was accepted into the Massachusetts School Building...
Opinion: Now More Than Ever, Town Council Needs A Citizen Advisory Committee
Three years ago, the elected members of the former Town Meeting Advisory Committee (TMAC) made...
Opinion: Thumbs Down To The Town Manager Evaluation Process
I rate the process this Town Council used to recently evaluate the town manager as...
Opinion: Council Must Slow Down And Give Proposed Parking Garage Proper Review And Public Debate
Since my letter regarding the proposed downtown parking garage was posted in the Indy on...
Opinion: Amherst’s Own “Phantom Tollbooth”
The column appeared previously in The Daily Hampshire Gazette Norton Juster, Amherst’s late, great author,...
Opinion: Love, Justice And Climate Change. Problems with “Net-Zero by 2050”
Many nations, corporations, municipalities, and other entities are setting goals to be “net-zero by 2050,”...
Opinion: In Gratitude
I remember John Cleese’s line in the film Clockwise: “It’s not the despair…it’s the hope...
Opinion: Reflections on COP26 – How Bad, Or Good, Was It?
COP26, this year’s UN climate conference, has ended. There has been and will continue to...
