By Mickey Friedman July 4, 2018 Clearly, the President is suspicious about what they’re doing up there. Something’s a bit off. How else do they have the best hockey players? Not to mention that quirky national anthem our NBA players…
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Warzones
By Mickey Friedman June 16, 2018 Once it was fairly easy for white people. The native-Americans were forced to ever-dwindling, degrading reservations. Our foreign enemies were oceans away. The folks to fear were the blacks, but they were outnumbered and…
Oligarchs
By Mickey Friedman June 5, 2018 The obvious is often missed. Until it rises up and comes crashing down upon us. So much TV talk about the great mystery. Why are there Russians everywhere you look in Trumpovia? The former…
A Whole Lot of School Supplies
By Mickey Friedman May 25, 2018 You can’t make this stuff up. Which is a burden for writers, because we make things up and hope it’s believable. But today unbelievable is everywhere. Imagine what it’s like for comedians who are…
Feed The People
By Mickey Friedman May 6, 2018 I learned about the pride of the poor from my parents who grew up with nothing. It was understood I would work as soon as I could legally find a job, to do my…
River Wars
By David Scribner September 27, 2011 LENOX – The state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), in a tactic that environmentalists claim is a concession to – if not an outright partnership with — the General Electric Company, has adopted a…
Lift off for Great Barrington tax rate
By David Scribner August 26, 2011 GREAT BARRINGTON – With misgivings and trepidation, the Board of Selectmen has approved a 2012 tax rate of $13.12 per $1,000 evaluation, an increase of 7.9 percent over last year. If there is silver…
A New Vision for Old New England Log Homes
By David Scribner August 24, 2011 GREAT BARRINGTON – Next month, when crews begin to demolish the remaining buildings on the badly contaminated property at the foot of Bridge Street once owned by New England Log Homes, the first step…
Scribner: The GB Library, The Trustees & Their Memo
By David Scribner July 7, 2011 The Great Barrington Library Trustees, meeting in emergency session, have reiterated their right to name the next library director. They took this action in spite of the fact that the town charter considers the…
Small Town Arson; Small Town News
By Mickey Friedman June 24, 2011 I’m not really a news man. I’ve written a non-fiction book, am writing a mystery novel, and have made films. And I write a quirky column every other week for The Berkshire Record about…
Tale of Tangled Town Politics
A Building Inspector, A Town Manager, A Town Counsel, A Board of Selectmen & A Tree Farm That Isn’t June 10, 2011 GREAT BARRINGTON, MA There was a grim smile on Ed May’s face when he left the Town Hall…
BIFF Bops Local Boosters
Has the Berkshire International Film Festival (BIFF) gotten too big for its britches and too swank for the Berkshires? That would seem to be the case when it comes to the way it treated at least some of its local…