When “Show Your Badge” Fails: What Citizens Can Legally Do if a Plainclothes “Agent” Is Forcing Someone Into a Car
The following article appeared originally in the Queen Zone on September 26, 2025. It is...
Law
AG Declines to Enforce Its Prohibition Against Contract Signing for Library Project
Despite the warning the Attorney General (AG) gave to the Town of Amherst to not...
AG Acknowledges “Fair Concerns” but Denies Bid Protest of Jones Library Building Project for Now
Justin Polk, Massachusetts Assistant Attorney General Hearing Officer for the Bid Unit, issued a decision...
Legality of $1M Jones Library CPAC Award Remains in Question
In June 2020 the Amherst Indy reported on a disagreement that had arisen on the...
What’s Law Got to Do With It? How Amherst’s Disregard of Historic Preservation Law Has Already Forfeited $1,800,000 and Jeopardizes Millions More in Federal Grants
A Bit of HistoryWhen I retired back to Massachusetts in 1999, one of my first...
A year ago Roe v Wade was overturned. Grieve for the new America
The supreme court’s decision has created a two-tiered class of US citizenship: one for men and one for women. It is a generational tragedy