Opinion: Burden Is On Trustees to Prove Jones Expansion Is Fiscally Responsible
By Art and Maura Keene Here’s the (multi) million dollar question: can the Jones Library...
Amherst Forward
Opinion: Dumb Growth Reprise
Editor’s Note: This week we are reposting this column by Michael Greenebaum because it speaks...
Opinion: A Movement Voter Project For Amherst?
If we survive this calamitous moment in United States history, we will face another one...
LETTER: AN OPEN LETTER TO JOHN HORNIK
Dear John. I am responding to your comment on my recent piece, “Dumb Growth,” with...
OPINION: DUMB GROWTH
What vision of the future is compelling the Town Council to press ahead with large,...
HEATHER LORD, BACKED BY AMHERST FORWARD, APPOINTED TO SCHOOL COMMITTEE
By Jennifer Page and Maria Kopicki On Tuesday April 14, the vacancy on the Amherst...
Opinion: The Council at One Year – VOTER APATHY CONFERS OUTSIZED INFLUENCE TO LOCAL PAC
In the second Town election since the new Charter took effect, poor voter turnout, a...
OPINION: AMHERST’S PAC
On the eve of the recent town election, I received a call from an old...
TOWN COUNCIL FOR NOOBS: TOWN COUNCIL REGULAR MEETING (7/1/19). THE BIG ISSUE WAS AFFORDABLE HOUSING
(Editor’s Note: this column contains part two of Kaizen’s column on campaign finance reform.) Before...
TOWN COUNCIL FOR NOOBS: TOWN COUNCIL REGULAR MEETING (6/17/19). THE BIG ISSUE WAS CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM (This is part one of a two-part column).
The proposed campaign finance reform bylaw returned for a vote at tonight’s meeting. Put forward...