Opinion: Here is the Speech that the Uncommitted Movement Was Denied Permission to Present at the DNC
At a convention whose participants emphasized diversity and inclusion, one voice that was noticeably absent...
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Americans Widely Oppose ‘Project 2025’ According to New UMass Amherst Poll
National Poll Also Found Significant Fear of Election and Partisan Violence Source: UMass News and...
From Other Sources: News for and About Amherst. This Week: More Area News that You Need, The Aftermath of the Supreme Court’s Historic Decisions, and Project 2025 and the Revocation of Civil Rights
Here are links to some news stories from the last two weeks that are worth...
Letter: Town Council is Not Authorized to Throw Unlimited Funds at Jones Library Expansion
The following letter was sent to the Amherst Town Council on May 31, 2024 I...
From Other Sources: News for and About Amherst. This Week, Area News Roundup, The National Housing Crisis, and The Growing Threats to Democracy
On the same day that the US senate rejected legislation that guaranteed women’s right to...
From Other Sources: News for and About Amherst. This Week: Catching up on Local News and the Health of our Democracy
It was a busy news week so we’ve come up with this brief extra edition...
Letter: Open Meeting Law Complaint Before Council Seeks to Weaken Our Democracy
The following letter was sent to the Amherst Town Council on March 12, 2024 I...
Letter: We Need a Community Forum on the Future of Wildwood
Now that construction has started to build the new school at the Fort River site,...
Opinion: Silence Is Dangerous in the Current Age of Rising Fascism in the US
by Henry Giroux The following article, “Silence Is Dangerous in the Current Age of Rising...
Indy Editors to Appear on WHMP’s Panorama
Amherst Indy editors Art Keene and Kitty Axelson-Berry were interviewed by WHMP’s Sarah Robertson and ...
From Other Sources: News for and About Amherst. This Week – Local News Roundup and the Disappearance of Local Media and Its Implications for Democracy
Here are links to some local stories from the last few weeks that we were...
Opinion: Reflections at the End of the Year
Here are things I am sad about in Amherst as 2023 draws to an end....