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Zero Waste Amherst Encourages The Town To Not Install Synthetic Turf On High School Athletic Fields
Zero Waste Amherst thanks Toni Cunningham for cautioning the town regarding the use of synthetic...
Letter: The Point Of Financial Models Is To Answer “What If” Questions. That’s Not What We’re Getting
Finance Director Sean Mangano’s modeling of the town’s “four major capital projects” has been presented multiple...
Letter: Town Government Not Doing Enough To Address The Challenges Of Student Housing
The following letter was sent to the Amherst Community Resources Committee on October 24, 2022....
Letter: Councilors Hanneke And Griesemer Need To Reflect On Their Role In Upholding White Supremacy
On Monday October 17, certain members of the Amherst Town Council showed us what white...
Letter: Police Report On July 5 Interaction With BIPOC Youth Omits And Distorts Facts
The following letter was sent to the Amherst Town Council on October 22, 2022 I...
Opinion: Why The Conversation About Policing Cannot Stop
On October 17, an obscure and poorly-constructed provision of the Amherst Home Rule Charter was...
Opinion: I Regret That This Is The Way It Is
All American atrocities were once protected by the law. Slavery, segregation, lack of women’s rights,...
Opinion: The Shoulders We Stand On
by Dr. Shirley Jackson Whitaker and Anika Lopes As descendants of African American enslaved people...
Opinion: Our Community Stands With The Amherst 9
You have no rights is what Amherst Police told nine youths after detaining them before...
Opinion: Nuclear War Is The Most Local Of Issues
The following column appeared previously in the Daily Hampshire Gazette. We live in a troubled...
Opinion: Thoughts On The Upcoming Election And A Bit Of Good Climate News
Love, Justice And Climate Change Once again, as most of you know, we find ourselves...