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Monday, January 2, 2017

Happy New Year, 2017 (and good riddance, 2016)!

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Wishing all my friends a very happy new year! A greeting from the vaults. This is a sentimental old favorite from my collection: n...
Thursday, December 22, 2016

Human Rights Day 2016

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This year, as every year, Amherst celebrated Human Rights Day, marking the anniversary of the promulgation of the Universal Declaration of H...
Saturday, May 28, 2016

Town Meeting: purest participatory democracy--or "mental torture, in which the victim actively collaborates"?

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"Town Meeting was absolutely awful last night." "How bad was it? "It was SO bad that...." Town Meeting ...
Saturday, January 30, 2016

A Budget. Dedicated to Amherst

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It cannot be often that a document as important yet prosaic as a municipal budget comes with a dedication, but such was this case this month...
Sunday, September 27, 2015

A Placeholder for an Absence: Amherst Town Manager John Musante, 1961-2015

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the large flag on the Town Common at half-staff following the funeral for Amherst Town Manager John Musante, 26 September 2015
Thursday, August 27, 2015

Follow-up on the Town Manager Evaluation

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Citizen blogger Larry Kelley was kind enough to respond to my piece on the Town Manager evaluation (since I had referenced his ). I sta...
Monday, August 24, 2015

Getting the Select Board's Town Manager Evaluation Wrong

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Reviewing books or reporting the news must be among the most unenviable tasks: no matter how hard one works to get things right, one will in...
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Sunday, August 16, 2015

V-J Day or VFE Day? August 10 or August 15?

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In the previous post , I described how my parents learned about the atomic bomb and victory over Japan. In the course of writing up that ...
Saturday, August 15, 2015

How My Parents Learned About the Atomic Bomb

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If it's early August, it must be time for the obligatory reflection on the dropping of the atomic bomb, a doubly topical subject this ye...
Tuesday, June 9, 2015

From the Vaults: Amherst Town Meeting: The View from 2011 (April 1--but no joke)

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From the Vaults As I mentioned in the previous post , I thought I would resurrect a few older pieces in order to provide some perspective...