On December 1, environmental activists from the Pioneer Valley and other parts of Massachusetts succeeded in submitting more than 90,000 “certified” signatures to get an initiative on the... Read more »
November 28, 2025
Fighting for a Free Press
A national group based in Northampton successfully lobbied to get the state of New Jersey to fund local journalism. The group is now trying to get Massachusetts to do the same thing. The following... Read more »
November 21, 2025
Another Bike-Ped Victory for Brattleboro
“This is a great victory,” Brett Morrison of the Brattleboro group Friends of Island Park, told the Valley Post in a voice phone interview on November 20. The two bridges that connect downtown... Read more »
November 14, 2025
300 March
On November 13 in Amherst, about 300 people marched. They were calling for jobs with justice. Specifically they were demanding “that UMass Amherst’s chancellor Javier Reyes, who is directing... Read more »
November 07, 2025
Brattleboro Bike-Ped Victory
Thanks to the work of bike-ped activists in Brattleboro, the select board voted to support the creation of a new bike-ped path that will connect downtown with a network of rail trails that goes to... Read more »