By Mickey Friedman and the Red Crow Economic News Team™ July 27, 2011 Our crack Red Crow Economic News Team™ has been busily at work trying to come up with a new definition of “local.” The local debate has been…
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Of Kids, Toxic Chemicals, the EPA, and Industry
July 26, 2011 By Mickey Friedman According to a new report by Arthur A. Elkins, Jr. and his Office of Inspector General at the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), EPA’s own “Voluntary Children’s Chemical Evaluation Program” (VCCEP) did not…
EPA: Moving Ahead with Housatonic River Cleanup Process
July 14, 2011 Mickey Friedman The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today signaled its intention to proceed as scheduled with its plans to present cleanup options for the Housatonic River to EPA’s National Remedy Review Board (NRRB). The EPA had recently…
Of TV, Torchwood, and Lauren Ambrose
July 14, 2011 Camille LeCrow First off, I have to say I’m exceedingly grateful that the Starz network has opted to give us back “Torchwood,” and thrilled that Great Barrington’s own Lauren Ambrose has joined the cast. I am one…
The PCB Wars: The Commonwealth et al vs. EPA
By Mickey Friedman July 11, 2011 What do Massachusetts Congressman John Olver, Sen. Scott Brown, General Electric, and officials at the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs all have in common? Together, they’re doing their best to influence the Environmental…
Scribner on the Great Barrington Library: Of Books, Boards, and Battles
By David Scribner July 5, 2011 When a political fray becomes nasty, petty, brutish and unkind – to rephrase Thomas Hobbes — the better part of valor, sometimes, is to withdraw gracefully from the field of battle. That is the…
George Wislocki: Goodbye Berkshire Bank
July 3, 2011 Editor’s Note: The cleanup of the Housatonic River has reached a critical phase. You may remember that in 2000, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the City of Pittsfield negotiated a consent…
Time to Take The Tourists
By Mickey Friedman July 3, 2011 Editor’s Note: We at Red Crow want to make it clear how much some of us like cats. And remind you of our Poetic License when we say there’s more than one way to…