Police Chief Listening Sessions Emphasize Need For Change In Agency Culture
The Town of Amherst hosted two public listening sessions on September 12 to collect feedback...
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Poverty, By America by Matthew Desmond review – how the rich keep the poor down
A Pulitzer-winning sociologist argues that the United States’s gross inequality is no accident
NY Times Columnist Tressie McMillan Cottom To Speak On Race, Technology, and Higher Education At UMass On March 29
Source: UMass News & Media 2020 MacArthur Fellow and New York Times columnist Tressie McMillan...
Town Seeks Respondents To Survey On Historic And Cultural Resources
Source: amherstma.gov The Town of Amherst has a variety of historic and cultural resources for...
Amherst Cultural Council Awards 73 Grants To Local Recipients
Source: amherstma.gov Amherst Cultural Council (ACC) has awarded 73 grants totaling $61,983, for cultural programs...
Opinion: The Rights Of Minors
With the apology of the Town Manager it may seem that the most contentious aspect...
Colorado Sports Blog Trashes Amherst. We Have Last Word
LetsGoDU, a fansite devoted to Denver University athletics, has thrown some shade at the city...
‘Demolition is an act of violence’: the architects reworking buildings instead of tearing them down
The planned demolition of London’s flagship M&S store will release 40,000 tonnes of CO2 into the air. Is it time for a new age of creative architectural reuse?
‘There’s always something to be done’: how the Janes provided illegal abortions before Roe
A HBO documentary looks to the past – a secret, women-run network of abortion providers in the late 1960s – as a window into the future of restricted reproductive rights in the US
Opinion: Love, Justice and Climate Change. A Useful Idea With Practical Implications
One of the most useful concepts I’ve encountered in working with people and organizations is...
Brooke Hauser To Speak On Women, COVID, And The Meaning Of Work
Source: UMass Department of History Brooke Hauser, Writer in Residence with the UMass/Five College Graduate...
Beyond the fog of war: books to help us understand the invasion of Ukraine
From Ukrainian history to Putin’s kleptocracy and Gogol’s stories, author and former Russia correspondent Oliver Bullough chooses the best titles