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Columnist Bill Newman: Trump’s kakistocracy cabinet
01-11-2025 10:07 AM

By BILL NEWMAN

Words matter. Some I wish I didn’t need to know.

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Columnist Bill Newman: How Trump is going for the total power grab
02-07-2025 1:31 PM

By BILL NEWMAN


Columnist Bill Newman: A look back from the future
12-13-2024 1:20 PM

By BILL NEWMAN

First, they came for people they called “illegals.” There was initial resistance, but many people who were not at risk did not speak out because they felt exhausted and distraught, could barely watch or read the news and believed nothing they said or...


Columnist Bill Newman: A call to resist Trump
11-08-2024 3:24 PM

By BILL NEWMAN

On the daily WHMP radio show that I co-host, the first part of the show on the first Thursday of the month is reserved for our congressman, Jim McGovern. I’d been happily anticipating this week’s scheduled post-Election Day conversation with him.For...


Columnist Bill Newman: The day of decision nears
10-11-2024 3:41 PM

By BILL NEWMAN

Many of Donald Trump’s most adamant supporters acknowledge that he is a disgusting racist and misogynist, an inveterate liar, a grifter, and a fraud. But many don’t care or worse, venerate him for exactly these, what shall we call them —...


Columnist Bill Newman: Can’t we protect our kids?
09-13-2024 1:21 PM

By BILL NEWMAN

Last week 14-year-old Colt Gray shot and killed two classmates and two teachers at his Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia. Colt has been charged with four counts of felony murder and will be tried as an adult.His father, Colin Gray, has been...


Columnist Bill Newman: Walz a fine addition to ticket — but Trump lurks
08-09-2024 3:03 PM

By BILL NEWMAN

Let me confess. Until a week ago, I knew nothing about the governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz. And until Kamala Harris picked him as her veep, I had no idea how to pronounce his name. You, too?Political pundits disagree about the importance of a...


Columnist Bill Newman: The fireflies of July
07-13-2024 7:01 AM

By BILL NEWMAN

From my Gazette column of August 1996 I miss the fireflies of July. A secret galaxy born from the still, overflowed waters of the Connecticut, they dance up the hillsides that surround the Meadows of Northampton into the night sky. For years we have...


Columnist Bill Newman: Dismiss the charges against UMass protesters
06-07-2024 6:42 PM

By BILL NEWMAN

UMass Chancellor Javier Reyes’ decision in early May to call in the cops, resulted in the arrest of 130 protesters, including 85 UMass students, six faculty and other members of the five-college community. That decision was wrong — morally, ethically...


Columnist Bill Newman: Laurels and the laureate
05-10-2024 4:22 PM

By BILL NEWMAN

This column is about my daughter Jo, her daughters Kobin and Ramona, a horse named Lady and the U.S. Poet Laureate, Ada Limón. And it also isn’t.Kobin is five, almost six. Ramona is three, close to four. Jo, the girls and their dad, Jo’s husband Dean,...


Columnist Bill Newman: Did God take sides in the Alabama case?
03-22-2024 2:09 PM

By BILL NEWMAN

Warning: The case from the Supreme Court of Alabama, discussed here, may cause severe nausea. Proceed with caution. The Supreme Court of Alabama recently decided a case about frozen embryos created, kept, and later accidentally destroyed at a...


Columnist Bill Newman: Resolving St Mary’s legal tussle is good for the city
03-03-2024 12:09 PM

By BILL NEWMAN

Are you on the outside looking in? Or the inside looking out?This question, important in many spheres of life, took center stage in federal court this past week in Roman Catholic Bishop of Springfield v. City of Northampton. Let’s back up for a...


Columnist Bill Newman: The illusion of kinder, gentler executions
02-02-2024 11:34 PM

By BILL NEWMAN

This past week Alabama continued our country’s experiment with different ways to kill people. It executed Kenneth Smith.A brief history. In the American colonies, death sentences, imported from Great Britain, were by hanging. Hanging could be...


Columnist Bill Newman: Libraries under attack — Fight back
01-12-2024 3:00 PM

By BILL NEWMAN

This is scary. The number of books being banned in school libraries is spiraling upward. Nationwide, for the 2022-2023 school year, PEN America substantiated 3,362 school book bans that targeted 1,557 unique titles. That’s a 33% increase from the...


Columnist Bill Newman: Supreme Court fails to acquit itself
12-03-2023 8:36 AM

By BILL NEWMAN

In November, the United States Supreme Court adopted a Code of Conduct. It’s a list of suggested, not required, ethical dos and don’ts for the Justices.The justices issued this document because they want the klieg lights that the news media has been...


Columnist Bill Newman: Another step towards fascism? 
11-05-2023 8:03 AM

By BILL NEWMAN

When the sun rose over the Capitol on Oct. 25, 2023, Mike Johnson was a backbencher, an unknown-to-most-people congressman from Louisiana. By that afternoon, he was the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.Since then, many of us have been...


Columnist Bill Newman: No-holds-barred Second Amendment courts violence
09-18-2023 4:14 PM

By BILL NEWMAN

The facts are startling. In December 2019, after Zackey Rahimi and his girlfriend, identified in court papers as “CM,” got into an argument in a parking lot, Rahimi grabbed her, knocked her to the ground, dragged her back to his car and threw her...


Columnist Bill Newman: Lock him up? Why this case tops all
08-04-2023 4:45 PM

By BILL NEWMAN

This time it really matters.I’m not saying that the federal indictment in Florida that accuses Trump of absconding with and hiding national security documents and lying to federal law enforcement about possessing those papers and, additionally,...


Columnist Bill Newman: The high court’s supremely wrong decision
07-10-2023 6:07 PM

By BILL NEWMAN

Here we go again. Last June the Supreme Court overruled a half-century of precedent and repealed the right to abortion. This June, the court again jettisoned a half-century of precedent, this time to gut affirmative action.Let’s be clear. This is not...


Columnist Bill Newman: The right to criticize
04-10-2023 1:28 PM

By BILL NEWMAN

In March, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts struck down as unconstitutional the town of Southborough’s Civility Code, which required that comments made by members of the public to town boards and committees be “respectful and courteous.”...


Columnist Bill Newman: Around the park again
03-03-2023 3:23 PM

By BILL NEWMAN

Last year for my birthday my brother, Jeff, gave me “Once More Around the Park,” a collection of stories by Roger Angell, who has been described as “baseball’s finest, fondest chronicler.” Jeffrey, no doubt, came upon the book, published in 1991,...

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