Youth leaders stir ‘Good Trouble’ at Northampton rally in honor of civil rights activist and congressman John Lewis

07-17-2025 4:05 PM

NORTHAMPTON — Alice Jenkins, Marisol Pierce-Bonifaz and Joey Pisani are still technically teenagers. But in Pulaski Park on Thursday, the three youths led a rally of more than 100 participants with all the verve and vigor of veteran organizers.


Housing advocates, tenants decry rent hikes in Easthampton

07-17-2025 4:22 PM

EASTHAMPTON — Easthampton tenants and advocates gathered outside the Municipal Building Wednesday with signs and megaphones, calling for city councilors to support their opposition to out-of-state property owners increasing rents.


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George Kriebel: We can fund the switch to green energy
07-17-2025 11:32 AM

Daniel Lyons’s letter of July 15 responds to Pat Hynes’s column of July 8 advocating ending the use of all fossil fuels, by quoting a report by Vaclav Smil describing the enormous technical, economic, and political challenges which make a rapid transition away from fossil fuel use impossible. Smil’s report was published by the Fraser Institute, which Wikipedia says is a nonprofit organization which ceased disclosing its corporate donors in the 1980s, but also says that Fraser has received major donations from Charles and David Koch and ExxonMobil, all interested in promoting fossil fuels.

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