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As the winter gets colder, the Amherst Energy and Climate Action Committee would like to encourage all drivers to remain mindful of their vehicle idling habits. While protection from the cold is important, idling a car for longer than five minutes is...

By IYKO DAY

I would like to respond to Jonathan Kahane’s guest column of Dec. 29, “Haunted by questions with no good answers.” His column presents a series of rhetorical questions as a conceit to disguise his ideological defense of Israel’s genocidal bombardment...

A recent letter pined for a time in the past when people could carry their shotguns and .22s in the back of their cars and enjoy their hunting pastime [“A different time with guns,” Gazette, Dec. 13]. No one shot each other and society was...

The recent inflation spiral has made us more aware of public policies that in normal times pass unnoticed. State policies, particularly retirement programs, loom particularly large in Massachusetts because we are one of only seven states that do not...

By AMY LEOS-URBEL

To the people of western Massachusetts and our leaders, please remember, like all Americans, regardless of their political beliefs, Jewish Americans have a right to be safe and secure in their homes, communities, schools, businesses, and houses of...

By DR. MATTEO PANGALLO

In his Dec. 22 letter, ‘The fallacy of gun control,” William Aherin repeats without qualification certain assertions he made in a similar letter in June 2022 — namely, that gun control “doesn’t work.” As in the previous letter, the writer does not...

By JOHN SHEIRER

Four years ago, my column in this newspaper predicted that Donald Trump would lose the 2020 presidential election. Readers who opposed Trump told me, “I wish I had your optimism,” or “That’s what you said in 2016,” or “His crazies have gotten worse...

We must respond to two points in Jonathan Kahane’s recent guest column [“Haunted by questions with no good answers,” Gazette, Dec. 29]. First of all, it is a grave mistake to view the recent actions of Hamas as motivated by anti-Semitism; they were,...

I was disappointed in the Jan. 4 article in the Gazette regarding the slow adoption of heat pumps [“Public slow to warm to heat pumps’]. In particular, the quote from a Brookline resident saying he'd heard price quotes from $57,000 to $97,000, with no...

Thank you for Jon Huer’s provocative and mostly accurate assessment of why on God’s green earth so many people are willing to embrace Trump and his MAGA “fascist” agenda [“Trump’s new American revolution of 2024,” Gazette, Dec. 30]. The Trump threat...

Al Norman’s Jan. 2 guest column “Medicare Advantage, and disadvantages” focused on an issue that other local activists, including Valley Action and allied Indivisible groups in New York, have been hard at work on for nearly a year. Thanks to his...

By GENE STAMELL

One morning, a number of years ago, I found myself standing in line at a Starbucks counter.The woman in front of me was screaming into her phone, arguing about what seemed to be a rent dispute. Obviously irate, she was completely unaware of her...

In his Dec. 29 guest column, “Haunted by questions with no good answers,” Jonathan Kahane presents himself as an “asker of questions,” but I wonder if he’s really looking for answers or simply comforting himself with his justification for the...

If Congress fails to fully fund WIC, the supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and children, by Jan. 19, states will need to reduce WIC participation by about 2 million young children and pregnant and postpartum adults nationwide by...

The expiration date. That’s what concerned us on the morning of day one of the new year. News arrived that a friend got COVID and we had a brunch to go to, so testing seemed sensible. Except all our unused tests had expired.Lots of talk about...

I read the recent guest column “Trump’s new American revolution of 2024” [Gazette, Dec. 30] with keen interest. Although I too find it troubling that Mr. Trump is ahead in the polls, I believe the race is far from over.Furthermore, the writer’s...

By MARIA JOSÉ BOTELHO

I’m grateful to find out that there’s another faithful reader (and writer) of obituaries in our community [“There’s just a lot of life in the obits” by Marietta Pritchard, Gazette, Jan. 3].I have been reading obituaries since I could read in English...

Kudos to Florence and all responsible for terrific Christmas/holiday lights! Every year they have been outstanding with local businesses participating. Great job!Joseph A. TwarogFlorence

By MARIEL E. ADDIS

My mom passed in 2008 at the age of 70. She had suffered for a number of years with early-onset Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s and had been in nursing home care the last years of her life.I had come out as transgender to my wife a year and a half before...

By JOHN HAAG

I am writing in support of John Berkowitz’s recent column, “End the war in Ukraine before it ends us” [Gazette, Dec. 4].In recent years, the world has witnessed the tragic conflict unfolding in Ukraine, a crisis that has caused immeasurable suffering...