Gun Control: We Agree, Yet…

This ought to be easy, according to these new Pew numbers: Gun control supporters can point to broad and consistent public support for expanded background checks. Fully 81% favor making private gun sales and sales at gun shows subject to background checks, little...

Gun Control: If We Build It…

Between 3-D printers and the “gun build” phenomenon, it’s safe to say that gun legislation battles are a sideshow. Despite the tendency of gun arguments to quickly concretize into opposing cartoons, the grand-scale issue of gun violence isn’t...

On Asselin, Hurst, and segregation

The city’s License Commission has turned down an application from Chris Asselin, the one-time state rep turned convicted felon, to sell used cars in the city. Sometimes the jokes write themselves. Not so funny is the fact that Commission member (and Ward 8 City...
What Ails Them

What Ails Them

Over the past several weeks, Town Meetings in nine Franklin County communities have passed non-binding resolutions expressing concern about changes at Baystate Franklin Medical Center—the county’s sole hospital—that supporters say have reduced...