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By GARY MICHAEL TARTAKOV

 On July 24, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stood in the Capitol, thanking the U.S. Congress for itscooperation in Israel’s war on Gaza, I was standing on Pennsylvania Avenue, with thousands of Jews, Palestinians and others, facing...

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...

Support for the National Popular Vote Interstate CompactAs a board member of the Northampton Area chapter of the League of Women Voters, I appreciated Allen Woods’ recent column [“Who loves the Electoral College?” Aug. 3] explaining the history and...

By JOHN BERKOWITZ

 I’m Jewish, not antisemitic, and strongly opposed to the Biden administration’s unconditional support for the right-wing government in Israel and its genocidal attack on 2.3 million civilians in Gaza in response to the Hamas attack of Oct. 7. And...

By J.M. SORRELL

Enthusiasm is high, and I do not think it will wane. We have a presidential candidate who is not afraid to express joy while she is serious about what is at stake. She is smart and has heart.Vice President Kamala Harris is intrepid and humble at the...

By TINKY WEISBLAT

Jonathan Stevens of Hungry Ghost Bread in Northampton has much to celebrate. The bakery he owns and runs with his domestic and business partner, Cheryl Maffei, marked its 20th birthday this spring. His “Hungry Ghost Bread Book” (Chelsea Green, 208...

By TOM GARDNER

 ‘Orders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune. Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune.” With these startling words in her dissenting opinion, Justice Sonia...

By MARILYN MARKS

 Why grieve? I share with you true stories from my circle of friends and community:A seasoned hiker walks into the mountains with his dog and never returns.A woman suddenly keels over with a heart attack and dies in her partner’s arms.A young mother...

By BRUCE J. STEDMAN

When you hear church bells tolling on the morning of Aug. 6, listen carefully. They have an important message for you.In 1624, English cleric and poet John Donne published a series of poems, including “No Man is an Island.” Donne lived and wrote at a...

As the Democratic Party leaders scramble to figure out the path forward, I ask myself, how will we care for each other, no matter what the future holds. One way is through the work of abortion funds. In the months following the overturn of Roe, as...

By CARRIE BAKER

Last Sunday evening, just hours after President Joe Biden announced he would withdraw from the presidential race, 44,000 Black women met online and raised over $1.5 million for Vice President Kamala Harris in under two hours. On the popular...

Whately Town Moderator Nat Fortune's recent mea culpa in these pages exemplifies the kind of candor and accountability I wish we could see from all public figures [“Put the blame on me,” July 17]. He heard an honest complaint, and publicly took...

By ADA DENENFELD KELLY

Over 400 years after Shakespeare wrote “King Lear,” a theater production reimagines the story as one about the complexities of dementia.Director Toby Vera Bercovici of Cleveland Heights, Ohio and Northampton created the play over the course of five...

By HOWARD GOLD

 Joe Biden faces a wrenching decision: to withdraw or to stay on as Democratic nominee for the presidency of the United States. His disastrous debate performance on June 27 reinforced an image that many voters held of the president: that he is too old...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — When Greenfield resident Kevin Ross first joined the Northampton Building Department in 2018 as an inspector, he says he was just looking for a little more of a stable income after a lifetime of working in construction.“I was getting...

By BRIAN COOPER

I quite enjoyed the opening paragraph of Jon Huer’s opinion piece predicting that fascism is on our immediate horizon (“On our last Independence Day” Gazette, July 1). Particularly amusing was his humorous and deliberately hyperbolic description of a...

By EMILEE KLEIN

A bill moving through the Legislature will require all new vehicles sold in the state after Jan. 1, 2026 to include adaptive headlights that illuminate the road without shining into the windshields of oncoming drivers.According to the U.S. Department...

By MICHAEL DOVER

 Presidential “debates” are not debates, they are performances. They say nothing about policies or facts, and little if anything about why one should or shouldn’t vote for the performers. Last week’s debate showed one thing for certain: No one should...

By CHRIS LARABEE and ALEXA LEWIS

With Massachusetts experiencing its seventh-wettest year on record in 2023 as torrential rainstorms ravaged roads, farms and homes, the federal government, the state and those here in the Pioneer Valley are turning their eyes toward future flood...

By STEVE PFARRER

In the early 1990s, I answered an ad for a reporting job at the Gazette. I had editorial experience — I’d worked as a copywriter, a copy editor, and a proofreader — and I liked writing, but I’d never worked for a newspaper, unless you counted a few...