The Shoestring

Northampton City Council owns a van BLAIR GIMMA [Editor’s note: We are thrilled to announce that Blair Gimma will be reporting regularly on Northampton City Council meetings. This is the second installment of a regular column that will push beyond the banality of journalistic convention; it will try out creative ways to hold elected representatives […]

A new amendment to Northampton City Council rules could chill dissent in The Chamber BLAIR GIMMA & WILL MEYER On January 8th, after a four month long showdown over surveillance, Northampton City Council voted to uphold an ordinance that significantly limits the installation of police cameras downtown. The Council stood strong after Mayor Nakewicz’s troubling, […]

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 […]