To the Editor: A recent article ”How Do Community Hospitals Survive?” in the Greylock Independent focused on the financial aspects (insurance mix and reimbursement rates) of the demise of the North Adams Hospital, without adequately recognizing the impact of demographic and social factors, as well as the evolution of health care delivery over the past […]
3 Books on American Presidents for July 4th
By Susan Dunn “In confidence, I can assure you,” wrote George Washington to a friend on the eve of his inauguration in 1789 as the first president of the new republic, “that my movements to the chair of government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the […]
Casinos Are Not The Answer
By Alex Brooks I have been disappointed to watch two of our New England governors, both rising stars in the Democratic Party, focusing their economic development efforts on developing casinos. They do it, of course, because it’s easy. When you offer a casino license, you are pretty much guaranteed a construction project that will run […]
Fighting With Giants
By Tela Zasloff At the recent showing of “Gasland II” at the Images Theater I was struck by a comment made by the film’s director–that the large-scale fracking being pushed by powerful oil and gas industries not only contaminates the environment, but also is “contaminating our democracy.” This is a point worth making. The claims […]
De Tocqueville on Newspapers
by Tela Zasloff Alexis de Tocqueville, a French aristocrat with training in law, came to the United States in 1831 to observe our democracy and, at the astoundingly young age of 26, wrote a brilliant analysis that appears as fresh and convincing today as it did then. In beginning our new enterprise, The Greylock Independent, […]
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