Brad Brigham News Today

The angry man is at it once again: bashing America for its many shortcomings and criminal past (“The great far-right whitewash of history,” May 18).Carl Doerner has a corner on the market when it comes to tearing America down, but he never seems able...

The Recorder seems to pride itself on maintaining a chorus of negative commentators and essayists. Their theme is steady and consistent: The many shortcomings of America, its form of government and free/open market economy. According to those...

Call me foolish but I just can’t let go of the following fact: If the constitution states clearly that election procedures — rules and regulations — are set by state legislatures, and a handful of attorneys general in a handful of states unilaterally...

What on Earth is wrong with people? I’m talking about Kathy Steinem — GCC, Senior Center and community dance instructor. Here’s a woman who lives to dance, has spent her entire life dancing and who loves to share her talent and enthusiasm with others....

There is something fundamentally flawed with the idea of soliciting funds from the public for reasons other than dire emergencies and life threatening situations. People have always stepped up to help friends and neighbors in need after a fire or with...

COLRAIN — A miscommunication between Colrain Central School and abutters has led to half the trees on the border between the school and private land to be cut down, resulting in the Mohawk Trail Regional School District needing to replace them.During...

Homage — “allegiance by a vassal to his lord,” Webster’s Dictionary.According to his Aug. 6 letter, Mr. Brad Brigham believes rifles are war “workers,” so rifles merit homage as lord and master of Americans.Brigham writes as though in jest, but his...

Paying Homage to the rifles of WWII, Korea and VietnamHeaven forbid in this day and age of progressivism and intelligent thinking that someone would be foolish enough and have the brazen audacity to suggest that Congress set aside a day of the year to...

Let’s be truthful for a change and shift our focus away from guns and onto the gratuitous violence that pours out of Hollywood and the movie and video industry.  Tipper Gore was the last national figure to point to Hollywood as the true corrupting...

United Way of the Franklin and Hampshire Region recently received two large donations totaling $176,000, enhancing its ability to provide financial support to social service agencies across the two counties.A donation of $100,000 came from an...