The Shoestring

On the history of a Hadley witch hunt in the age of Donald Trump SARAH JANE YOUNG On January 10th, 2018, Donald Trump wrote to the world via Twitter: “The single greatest Witch Hunt in American history continues. There was no collusion, everybody including the Dems knows there was no collusion, & yet on and […]

It is hot in there. BLAIR GIMMA [Editor’s note: We are thrilled to announce that Blair Gimma will be reporting regularly on Northampton City Council meetings. This will be the first of many installments of a regular column that will push beyond the banality of journalistic convention; it will try out creative ways to hold […]

To make the ordinance less “inaccurate,” his bizarre revisions are contradictory. WILL MEYER On Monday, December 18th, Northampton Mayor David Narkewicz issued a letter to the City Council stating his reasons for vetoing the ordinance prohibiting downtown police surveillance cameras. Instead of objecting the ordinance outright, he instead used his letter to describe revisions that […]

Pleasing everyone and revealing nothing ROJAS OLIVA At Greenfield’s Baystate Franklin Medical Center (BFMC), nurses’ health care premiums had shot up 26 percent in the past year. Baystate nurses were working thousands of shifts longer than 12 hours, despite studies detailing how shifts this long makes them more prone to errors on the job. Furthermore, […]

Business owners and police want surveillance cameras to stop crime downtown. Their moral crusade against crime probably won’t stop wage theft. By Will Meyer Police Chief Jody Kasper hosted a community meeting in September to introduce what would become a controversial and polarizing proposal: to install police operated “surveillance cameras” in downtown Northampton. In her […]