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Valley Free Radio Hosts 2009 Northampton Mayoral Debate

by Guest Columnist | Oct 2, 2009 11:21 am | Comments (0)

Northampton, MA, — Valley Free Radio, WXOJ-LP 103.3 FM, in conjunction with Northampton Community Television will host the 2009 Northampton Mayoral Debate, sponsored by Herrell’s Ice Cream and the League of Women’s Voters of the Northampton Area. Northampton Mayor Clare Higgins and City Councilor Michael Bardsley will debate, questioned by a three-member panel which will be moderated by the national talk radio host of Midweek Politics, David Pakman. The debate will be held at the Northampton High School Auditorium on Tuesday, October 13, 2009, beginning at 7 pm, doors opening at 6:30pm. This will be an all-issues debate, and is likely to be the largest in recent Northampton history. The event is free and open to the public.

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The Teabagger Email Thread

by Mary Serreze | Oct 1, 2009 8:46 am | Comments (1)

From Bill Dwight to a small group of Higgins supporters, including Councilors Paul Spector and David Narkewicz, democratic party fundraiser Lisa Baskin, fundraising consultant and Community Preservation Committee member Jack Hornor, and others. Baskin and Spector forwarded this message widely:

Subject: Clare will win.. Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:58:58 -0400

Yesterday, a friend of mine was ambivalent as he went to the polls. He wasn’t clear about who to choose for mayor. He had heard from friends that he respects championing both Clare and MRB and he just didn’t know. But he said… his mind was made up when he passed the angry white men holding Bardsley signs and pulled up along Phil Broklesby’s car festooned with Bardsley for mayor stickers alongside gun rights stickers and other Libertarian claptrap.

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Candidate Silva Decries Higgins Camp Emails

by Guest Columnist | Oct 1, 2009 7:49 am | Comments (0)

Here is the text of a widely-distributed letter sent to the Northampton community by At-Large City Council Candidate Kathleen Sillva:

To the editor:

The day after Northampton’s primary election, I was forwarded an e-mail sent to City Councilors Spector and Narkewicz, John Hite, Lisa Baskin, Mayor Higgins and a few others, which had been written by Bill Dwight, a former councilor and WHMP radio show host. It was then forwarded by both Spector and Baskin to many other people in our community whose web address had been previously collected by the Vote Yes Committee.

I was both appalled and hurt with the content of the e-mail. I was termed an angry white person, a yeller and a “teabagger.” Working in a correctional facility, the term “teabagger” has an explicitly negative sexual definition, and it was bothersome that Mr. Dwight would be using borderline hate language to describe someone who stands up for what they believe in, and speaks out for others in the community.

In running for an at-large council seat this year, I knew there would be some tongue lashing for many stances that I have taken against some council decisions, but I never imagined this type of antics. I find this degrading to the city’s residents who support me, and condescending for the best interest of the city.

I am asking that individuals refrain from this destructive behavior, so that those of us who care about the city and its residents can move forward, in a more productive fashion.

Kathleen Silva

Florence

Sign the ‘Stop Spewing Carbon’ State Ballot Petition

by Guest Columnist | Oct 1, 2009 6:17 am | Comments (0)

Dear Friends and Fellow Citizens,

Please visit the website StopSpewingCarbon.com to find information about the citizen “Initiative Petition to Change the Law in Massachusetts” regarding the allowable limit of CO2 emissions from new power plants in the Commonwealth. I am one of the 10 original petitioners, and now that the petition has been certified, we must collect 100,000 signatures in the next 6 weeks to ensure that the proposed new law can be debated and voted upon in November of 2010.

We are trying to stop biomass incinerators. Biomass is a nice sounding term that denotes a set of things including public forests, trash including hospital waste, construction and demolition debris. Those biomass power plants (incinerators that make a tiny bit of electricity) emit at least 50% more CO2 than coal per kilowatt hour (depending on what exactly is burned)—as well as other greenhouse gases and toxins.

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McNair’s Response to Dwight

by Guest Columnist | Oct 26, 2009 2:17 pm | Comments (0)

Bill Dwight is at it again. First attacking Bardsley campaign supporters on behalf of Mayor Higgins, now he is coming after me on behalf of his candidate of choice for Ward One City Council, Maureen Carney.

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