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At midterm statewide elections, most of us pay attention to the marquee races such as governor and the U.S. Congress, and ignore the other statewide offices that need to be filled. The down ballot elected positions can be critically important. That’s...

When American cities were burning and businesses were looted at the hands of Black Lives Matter and Antifa rioters, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healy was recorded on video supporting this destruction: “America is burning, but that’s how...

In his May 27 letter to the editor, Jay Fleitman excoriates Mayor Sciarra for having the audacity to increase the Northampton budget while he and others struggle to keep up with inflation. He accuses her of being tone deaf, and living in a bunker....

Our new mayor Gina-Louise Sciarra has presented her first budget for Northampton. She has the audacity to suggest that her proposed 4.07% increase in the budget represents fiscal responsibility. Our mayor must be living in a bunker. Has she missed the...

Why have Jay Fleitman (Dec. 23, “Appalling”) and other former conservatives so thoroughly abandoned their core principles of accountability and fiscal responsibility? In a word, they know they have become unpopular. It turns out that the ideas and...

The Gazette has achieved an appalling new low with the recent article by Dusty Christensen and Greta Jochem, “A Gazette review of Northampton Police internal affairs investigations.”I don’t know if the editors and writers here got all sweaty and...

Battle Within GOP Escalates With New Lyons Missive - Boston, MA - The MassGOP chairman accused nearly every elected Republican in the House of bowing to "poisonous woke cancel culture groupthink."

A Massachusetts Republican Party committee member says she will not step down from her position in light of her anti-gay comments.

Jay Fleitman: Time to venture out Published: 2/18/2021 2:07:43 PM The New England Journal of Medicine last week formally published the results of the study for the Moderna MRNA COVID-19 vaccine: both the Pfizer vaccine and Moderna use this technology. The results are truly extraordinary: In the control or nonvaccinated group, 56.5 per thousand person-years of this group developed a COVID infection. In the vaccinated group, the number was 3.3 per thousand person-years. This results in a vaccine...

Jay Fleitman: Before, now, and after the COVID-19 pandemic Jay Fleitman FILE PHOTO Dr. Marina Del Rios, from University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System, receives Chicago’s first COVID-19 vaccination from Dr. Nikhila Juvvadi on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020, at Loretto Hospital, a 122-bed medical facility in the Austin neighborhood of Chicago. (Jose M. Osorio/Chicago Tribune via AP) Jose M. Osorio Published: 12/17/2020 7:41:52 AM My daughter, my wife and I were sitting in the airport o...